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v. To put (a person) to death by nailing or binding to a cross.

v. To mortify or subdue (the flesh).

v. To treat cruelly; torment: crucified the awkward child with teasing.

v. To criticize harshly; pillory: The media crucified the politician for breaking a campaign pledge.

v. To execute (a person) by nailing to a cross.

v. To punish or otherwise express extreme anger at, especially as a scapegoat or target of outrage.

v. To thoroughly beat at a sport or game.

v. To fasten to a cross; to put to death by nailing the hands and feet to a cross or gibbet.

v. To destroy the power or ruling influence of; to subdue completely; to mortify.

v. To vex or torment.

To put to death by nailing or otherwise affixing to a cross. See crucifixion.

Figuratively, in Scripture, to subdue; mortify; kill; destroy the power or influence of.

To vex; torment; excruciate.

To put or place in the form of a cross; cross.

v. hold within limits and control

v. kill by nailing onto a cross

v. treat cruelly

v. criticize harshly or violently

"The cross is the instrument of death, and to crucify is to kill."

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