crucify
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Etymology
From Middle EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Middle English#CRUCIFYCategory:English terms derived from Middle English#CRUCIFY crucifien, from Old FrenchCategory:English terms derived from Old French#CRUCIFY crucefier, from Late LatinCategory:English terms derived from Late Latin#CRUCIFY crucificō, from LatinCategory:English terms derived from Latin#CRUCIFY crucifigō.
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crucify (third-person singular simple present crucifies, present participle crucifying, simple past and past participle crucified)Category:English lemmas#CRUCIFYCategory:English verbs#CRUCIFYCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#CRUCIFYCategory:Pages with entries#CRUCIFYCategory:Pages with 1 entry#CRUCIFY (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#CRUCIFY)
- To execute (a person) by nailing to a cross.
- (hyperbolicCategory:English hyperboles#CRUCIFY) To punish or otherwise express extreme anger at, especially as a scapegoat or target of outrage.
- After his public gaffe, he was crucified in the media.Category:English terms with usage examples#CRUCIFY
- 1896 July 9, William Jennings Bryan, Cross of Gold speech:
- Having behind us the commercial interests and the laboring interests and all the toiling masses, we shall answer their demands for a gold standard by saying to them, you shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns. You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.
- 1992, Tori Amos, “Crucify”:
- I crucify myself, nothing I do is good enough for you / I crucify myself every dayCategory:English terms with quotations#CRUCIFY
- (hyperbolicCategory:English hyperboles#CRUCIFY, informalCategory:English informal terms#CRUCIFY, sportsCategory:en:Sports#CRUCIFY) To thoroughly beat at a sport or game.
- West Ham beat Manchester City five nil–they crucified them!Category:English terms with usage examples#CRUCIFY
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to execute a person by nailing to a cross
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