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crucify

English

  1. 🔊 kill by nailing onto a cross
    “Jesus Christ was crucified”
  2. 🔊 hold within limits and control
    “subdue one's appetites”
  3. 🔊 criticize harshly or violently
    “The press savaged the new President”
  4. 🔊 treat cruelly
    “The children tormented the stuttering teacher”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 crucificar to crucify, nail to a cross

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