CRUCIFY

• (verb) criticize harshly or violently

  "The press savaged the new President", "The critics crucified the author for plagiarizing a famous passage"

  synonyms : blast , pillory , savage

• (verb) hold within limits and control

  "subdue one's appetites", "mortify the flesh"

  synonyms : mortify , subdue

  They mortified their hunger pangs until dinner time. -added by naila_inlas

• (verb) treat cruelly

  "The children tormented the stuttering teacher"

  synonyms : bedevil , dun , frustrate , rag , torment

• (verb) kill by nailing onto a cross

  "Jesus Christ was crucified"

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