Another word for crucify | Synonyms for crucify

Another word for crucify

crucify Synonyms

crucify

v.

To kill by crucifixion
execute, nail to the cross, hang, torture; see kill 1.
To torment
torture, persecute, pillory, bedevil; see bother 2, persecute 1.

Search Thesaurus

WEBSTER’S NEW WORLD® ROGET’S A-Z THESAURUS by Charlton Laird and the editors of Webster’s New World dictionaries. Copyright © 1999 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Link/Cite

Link to this page

Cite this page

MLA Style

"crucify." YourDictionary, n.d. Web. 15 January 2019. <https://thesaurus.yourdictionary.com/crucify>.

APA Style

crucify. (n.d.). Retrieved January 15th, 2019, from https://thesaurus.yourdictionary.com/crucify

Another word for crucify

verb

To subject (another) to extreme physical cruelty, as in punishing:

rack, torment, torture. Idiom: put on the rack (or wheel). See pain, reward

Roget's II: The New Thesaurus Copyright © 2010 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Link/Cite

Link to this page

Cite this page

MLA Style

"crucify." YourDictionary, n.d. Web. 15 January 2019. <https://thesaurus.yourdictionary.com/crucify>.

APA Style

crucify. (n.d.). Retrieved January 15th, 2019, from https://thesaurus.yourdictionary.com/crucify

SentencesSentence examples

Sentence Examples

Florus actually dared to scourge and crucify Jews who belonged to the Roman order of knights.
In the Democratic national convention at Chicago in 1896, during a long and heated debate with regard to the party platform, Bryan, in advocating the "plank" declaring for the free coinage of silver, of which he was the author, delivered a celebrated speech containing the passage, "You shall not press down upon the brow of labour this crown of thorns; you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold."
On the journey thither he was caught by pirates, whom he treated with consummate nonchalance while awaiting his ransom, threatening to return and crucify them; when released he lost no time in carrying out his threat.

Also Mentioned In

WORDS NEAR crucify IN THE THESAURUS