Synonyms for crucify
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Antonyms for crucify
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WORD ORIGIN
c.1300, from Old French crucifer (12c., Modern French crucifier), from Vulgar Latin *crucificare, from Late Latin crucifigere "to fasten to a cross," from cruci, dative of Latin crux "cross" (see cross (n.)) + figere "fasten" (see fix (v.)). An ancient mode of capital punishment considered especially ignominious by the Romans. Figurative sense of "to torment" is 1620s. Related: Crucified; crucifying.
MORE RELATED WORDS FOR CRUCIFY
afflict
verbcause or become hurtafflicts
verbcause or become hurtagonized
verbsuffer or cause another to suffercut up
verbmake fun of; criticizekill
verbdeprive of existence; destroy- X-out
- annihilate
- asphyxiate
- assassinate
- crucify
- dispatch
- do away with
- do in
- drown
- dump
- electrocute
- eradicate
- erase
- execute
- exterminate
- extirpate
- finish
- garrote
- get
- guillotine
- hang
- hit
- immolate
- liquidate
- lynch
- massacre
- murder
- neutralize
- obliterate
- off
- poison
- polish off
- put away
- put to death
- rub out
- sacrifice
- slaughter
- slay
- smother
- snuff
- strangle
- suffocate
- waste
- wipe out
- zap
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