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1. Kill by nailing onto a cross
   "Jesus Christ was crucified"
    
2. Treat cruelly
   "The children crucified the stuttering teacher"
   - torment, rag, bedevil, dun, frustrate
    
3. Hold within limits and control
   "crucify the flesh"
   - mortify, subdue
    
4. Criticize harshly or violently
   "The critics crucified the author for plagiarizing a famous passage"
   - savage, blast, pillory

Derived forms: crucifying, crucified, crucifies

See also: crucifix, crucifixion

Type of: beset, check, chevvy [non-standard], chevy, chivvy, chivy, contain, control, criticise [Brit], criticize, curb, damn, execute, harass, harry, hassle, hold, hold in, knock, moderate, molest, pick apart, plague, provoke, put to death

Encyclopedia: Crucify