(v. t.) To fasten to a cross; to put to death by nailing the hands and feet to a cross or gibbet.
(v. t.) To destroy the power or ruling influence of; to subdue completely; to mortify.
(v. t.) To vex or torment.
Example Sentences:
(1) Much has been claimed about the source of its support: at one extreme, it is said to divide the right-of-centre vote and crucify the Conservatives .
(2) 'No app for that': tech-rich San Francisco's intractable homelessness Read more Greg Gopman, a co-founder of the startup AngelHack, began his mission to solve homelessness in San Francisco in 2013, after an online rant about the down-and-out saw him, in his own words, “crucified” on social media.
(3) And then I'll quote myself: 'The truth is always crucified.'
(4) Fothergill says many areas have still not recovered from the "crucifying blow" of large-scale job losses, with hidden unemployment still dragging down many communities – and masking the real scale of social and economic disparities.
(5) It sounded like a werewolf exorcising a roomful of crucified sopranos.)
(6) Hear the gospel of our saviour, Caitlin Moran, as she defends big knickers and pubic bushes in all their natural, un-crucified glory.
(7) I am advised that did not happen and for us to be crucified in the way that we have is absolutely wrong, including by Miliband and the Labour leadership."
(8) Civil servants were also due to meet Saudi representatives at the major arms expo in London’s Docklands last month, just as the regime upheld a ruling that al-Nimr was to be executed and his body crucified and left in public view for three days.
(9) Tim Buckley of the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis said to stop work at this stage “just crucifies the project, it all goes out the window”.
(10) We mostly stand by while people make profits in ways that hurt the poor, but when they make a profit trying to help them, they're crucified.
(11) That was until July 1977, when Mary Whitehouse, self-appointed guardian of national morals, won a blasphemy libel case against Gay News for publishing a poem about a Roman centurion's homoerotic leanings towards the crucified Christ.
(12) She describes how her nephew was crucified to death and a video of his crucifixion was put on the internet.
(13) In the early 1930s the politicians crucified the people on a cross of gold; as they obsessed about the facility for converting cash into bullion, they kept a rigid grip on the public purse strings.
(14) 8.10pm: For their live performance, JLS have been crucified in the sky.
(15) "I do not abandon the cross, but remain in a new way near to the crucified Lord," he said, adding in separate remarks in English: "I will continue to accompany the church with my prayers and I ask each of you to pray for me and for the new pope."
(16) When the badminton or swimming association hasn’t got its money, it’s Kwesi Nyantatkyi … It’s ridiculous … Kwesi Nyantakyi must be crucified by all means.” • Most resilient: Zimbabwe FA head Cuthbert Dube - denying wrongdoing and demanding a £650,000 payout after officials deposed him and his board.
(17) I have seen about five people crucified in the city.
(18) This controversy, Steve Scalise being crucified, is unfortunate,” says Knight.
(19) The pope looked bemused on Wednesday night when Morales handed him one of the more unusual gifts he has received: a sculpted wooden hammer and sickle – the symbol of communism – with a figure of a crucified Christ resting on the hammer.
(20) She said MPs heard from another woman who had come directly from Syria and spoke of Christians being killed and tortured, of children being beheaded in front of their parents and of mothers who had seen their own children crucified.
Crusade
Definition:
(n.) Any one of the military expeditions undertaken by Christian powers, in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries, for the recovery of the Holy Land from the Mohammedans.
(n.) Any enterprise undertaken with zeal and enthusiasm; as, a crusade against intemperance.
(n.) A Portuguese coin. See Crusado.
(v. i.) To engage in a crusade; to attack in a zealous or hot-headed manner.
Example Sentences:
(1) When he attacked New York, his vicious crusade was as much against skyscrapers as it was against western values and the US.
(2) Monday's ruling didn't just undercut the mayor's farewell gesture, a capstone in his crusade against unhealthful or just distasteful public behavior, which he was planning to trumpet on Letterman that night.
(3) The other thing is that Harold Wilson said a speech to the Labour party has to be a moral crusade and this speech was that.
(4) Should I have done it?” A week ago Karen Danczuk, 31, the wife of Simon, the crusading MP for Rochdale who has played a key role in forcing the government to address historical child sex abuse, spoke publicly for the first time of her own childhood.
(5) [When he comes to a gig] it’s like a mate at school turning up.” Watson’s record of campaigns against phone hacking and establishment child abuse have also won him cross-party admiration and a public profile as a righteous crusader.
(6) Zawahiri said: "I tell the captive soldiers of al-Qaida and the Taliban and our female prisoners held in the prisons of the crusaders and their collaborators, we have not forgotten you and in order to free you we have taken hostage the Jewish American Warren Weinstein."
(7) Hotels are an easy option, often patronised by individuals who can be depicted as “unbelievers”, or representatives of the so-called Crusader-Zionist alliance so hated by the extremists, and usually poorly protected too.
(8) In language eerily familiar to student politicians across the land, Abetz continued: “The new managing director will inherit an unbalanced and largely centralised public broadcaster which has become a protection racket for the left ideology.” For decades the highly trusted public broadcaster has weathered a relentless stream of attacks by the crusaders of the (increasingly) hard right in Australia.
(9) The roots of the Vietnam antiwar protest movement can be traced to the American crusade for civil rights.
(10) Richard Overholt issued the first warning signals about the perils of tobacco and served as an indefatigable leader of the antismoking crusade throughout his professional career.
(11) About 30 people took three weeks to walk from South Tyneside to London in the footsteps of the Jarrow Crusade of 1936 which highlighted unemployment and poverty during the Great Depression.
(12) The church doesn’t want crusades … and doesn’t want to start a new one with China,” he said.
(13) However, as Captain Black articulated frankly in Catch-22’s Glorious Loyalty Oath Crusade : “The important thing is to keep them pledging … It doesn’t matter whether they mean it or not.
(14) Mission's films aren't evangelical tools, part of a grand crusade – they're designed to plug a gap in the market.
(15) The government's crusade to embed "British values" in our education system is meaningless at best, dangerous at worst, and a perversion of British history in any case.
(16) Amid all the warmongering, bigotry and crusading, only one salient fact emerged from the Republican reactions to the Paris attacks: none of the party’s candidates are fit to govern in moments of international crisis.
(17) This study was based on the data collected through personal interviews by the Yang-Ming Crusade, organized by students of National Yang-Ming Medical College, during the summer vacations in 1983-1985.
(18) Over lunch last week Frank Field , the Labour MP whose views on poor people have been sought out by Thatcher, Blair and Cameron, was launching his latest crusade against poverty.
(19) The crusade I have is to make our society bigger, richer and stronger," he said.
(20) The coast of western Asia is less than 100 miles away and these strategically located rocks have been fought over for centuries – by the Crusaders, the Ottomans, the British and the Germans, among others.