to crucify
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8.0
- verb
- /ˈkruːsɪfaɪ/
- NSFW
:
crucificar
- And I do think that there are some situations where a lie has been told and people are so quick to react and crucify and condemn.
- publicly crucified
- crucify that guy
- got crucified
And she went back to crucify the unholy threesome, right.
- And she went back to crucify the unholy threesome, right.
- And she's under my comments being like, you know, crucifying me for being plastic or whatever.
- People were calling it child abuse and just crucifying his parents.
- You didn't have to tell me that they they're going to crucify you.
- And, and these Maine Republicans are crucifying the child of the president who's such a great family man.
- And I was crucified, just crucified.
- And I do think that there are some situations where a lie has been told and people are so quick to react and crucify and condemn.
- And he says, like him, each of us can be crucified and victimized and is to a certain degree.
- But from my perspective and somebody on YouTube, it is so awful the way that you can be crucified over things.
- But because they flip it and Scotland gets its own devolved powers, the taxation they want to crucify me.
- I mean, Christ himself is crucified by the people who use the religious enterprise as a means to power.
- It's letting go of the fantasy of some future better version of you and loving yourself right now instead of crucifying yourself on what you should be or could be.
- And I got crucified by the Boston press for even daring to OfferUp what appeared to be empathy for this case.
- So this is a modern interpretation of of of the race and high race being crucified.
Examples
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However, unlike a lot of the tech press, I am not going to crucify Samsung over this.
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I'm not going to sit here and hear you crucify her.
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The politicians do as they please and crucify the little guy for his own good, they say.
Fiction book (2001) -
If they hear you, they'll crucify you.
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I won't let them crucify you.
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Kids make poor judgment calls; they do not need to be crucified for it.
Blog text (15) -
I don't think it is fair to crucify Sarah Palin for making such a decision.
Blog text (24) -
My client is being pilloried... no, crucified...
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I think it would be a disservice to the Air Force if we killed their careers and crucified them.
Fiction book (2000) -
The media often tends to crucify public figures for minor mistakes.
Synonyms
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7.0
To treat someone badly for a long time because of their race, religion or political beliefs
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7.1
Make a person, group, or thing seem evil and dangerous, often unfairly
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6.0
Treat someone cruelly or unfairly so they suffer
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5.3
To strongly criticize someone in public
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5.3
To make someone or something lose respect by bad action
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8.1
To scold someone very strongly for something they did
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6.9
To tell someone firmly that you do not approve of their actions
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7.5
Treat someone as shameful and not worthy of respect
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6.8
To attack someone violently or criticize them very harshly
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7.3
To severely criticize someone or something
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8.8
To criticize or punish someone very harshly
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8.2
To criticize someone very strongly and angrily
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8.1
To angrily tell someone off
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9.8
To criticize someone or something very harshly in public
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9.3
To criticize someone publicly to make them feel ashamed
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8.8
To scold or punish someone severely to show strong anger, not a real action
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7.9
Scold someone very strongly for a mistake
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9.5
Say bad things about someone in public to show others what they did
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8.1
To scold or punish someone angrily for something they did wrong
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8.0
To criticize someone or something very strongly in public
To criticize someone angrily using harsh words
To say bad things about someone in public to make them feel ashamed
To be publicly punished or laughed at in a way that shames you
Antonyms
How Harsh
- NSFW
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8.0
43
7.9
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4.0
701
3.3
- Formal
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6.1
Surface Forms
Morphology
crucify = cross (semi-transparent) = cruci + ify
The figurative sense ('to treat with extreme cruelty or severe public criticism') is a metaphorical extension from the literal act of crucifixion, so the morphological relation is clear but the meaning is extended.
Etymology
Crucify later came to be used in a figurative way: like being fixed to a public cross, it means 'to treat or criticize someone with great cruelty or public shame', which is why critics can say a film was 'crucified'.