[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

crucify \cru"cify\ -f?, v. t. imp.  p. p. crucified
   -f?d; p. pr.  vb. n. crucifying. f. crucifier, fr.
   assumed ll. crucificare, for crucifigere, fr, l. crux,
   crucis, cross + figere to fix, the ending -figere being
   changed to -ficare, f. -fier in compounds, as if fr. l.
   facere to do, make. see cross, and fix, and cf.
   crucifix.
   1. to fasten to a cross; to put to death by nailing the hands
      and feet to a cross or gibbet.
      1913 webster

            they cried, saying, crucify him, cricify him. --luke
                                                  xxiii. 21.
      1913 webster

   2. to destroy the power or ruling influence of; to subdue
      completely; to mortify.
      1913 webster

            they that are christ's have crucified the flesh,
            with the affections and lusts.        --gal. v. 24.
      1913 webster

   3. to vex or torment. --beau.  fl.
      1913 webster
see also:
crucified crucifying cross fix crucifix 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

crucify
     v 1: kill by nailing onto a cross; "jesus christ was crucified"
     2: treat cruelly; "the children tormented the stuttering
        teacher" syn: torment, rag, bedevil, dun, frustrate
     3: criticize harshly or violently; "the press savaged the new
        president"; "the critics crucified the author for
        plagiarizing a famous passage" syn: savage, pillory
     also: crucified
see also:
torment rag bedevil dun frustrate savage 
pillory crucified 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

122 moby thesaurus words for "crucify":
   abuse, afflict, aggrieve, agonize, ail, bedevil, befoul, behead,
   bewitch, bite, blight, bloody, bother, bowstring, browbeat, burn,
   chafe, claw, condemn, convulse, corrupt, curse, cut, damage,
   decapitate, decollate, defenestrate, defile, deprave, despoil,
   destroy, disadvantage, disserve, distress, do a mischief, do evil,
   do ill, do wrong, do wrong by, doom, electrocute, envenom,
   excruciate, execute, fester, fret, gall, garrote, get into trouble,
   give pain, gnaw, grate, grind, gripe, guillotine, harass, harm,
   harrow, hex, hurt, impair, impale, infect, inflame,
   inflict capital punishment, inflict pain, injure, irritate, jinx,
   kill by inches, lacerate, lancinate, lapidate, macerate, maltreat,
   martyr, martyrize, menace, mistreat, molest, nip, outrage, pain,
   persecute, pierce, pinch, play havoc with, play hob with, poison,
   pollute, prejudice, prick, prolong the agony, punish, put to death,
   put to torture, rack, rankle, rasp, rip, rub, savage, scarify,
   scathe, shoot, smite, stab, sting, stone, strangle, taint,
   threaten, torment, torture, try, tweak, twist, violate, wound,
   wreak havoc on, wring, wrong

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