| Main Entry: | crucify |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | execute; torture near to death |
Synonyms: |
excruciate, hang, harrow, kill, martyr, martyrize, nail to cross, persecute, rack, torment, torture |
Antonyms: |
exalt |
| Main Entry: | crucify |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | browbeat, destroy with words |
Synonyms: |
afflict, agonize, bedevil, bother, harrow, ill-treat, lampoon, pan, ridicule, smite, tear to pieces, torment, torture, try, wipe the floor with |
Antonyms: |
compliment, exalt, laud, praise |
| Main Entry: | afflict |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cause or become hurt |
Synonyms: |
agonize, annoy, beset, bother, burden, crucify, distress, grieve, harass, harrow, harry, irk, lacerate, martyr, oppress, pain, pester, plague, press, rack, smite, strike, torment, torture, trouble, try, vex, worry, wound |
| Notes: | afflict is generally used with living beings; inflict is generally used with inanimate objects inflict takes 'on,' afflict takes 'with' |
Antonyms: |
aid, comfort, help, solace, stay away from, take care of |
| Main Entry: | agonize |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | suffer or cause another to suffer |
Synonyms: |
afflict, bleed, carry on, crucify, distress, disturb, eat heart out, excruciate, harrow, hurt, labor, lament, martyr, pain, rack, sing the blues, squirm, stew over, strain, strive, struggle, take it badly, torment, torture, try, wince, worry, writhe |
Antonyms: |
not worry |
| Main Entry: | cut up |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make fun of; criticize |
Synonyms: |
censure, condemn, crucify, denounce, give a rough time, knock, pan, rap, reprehend, reprobate, ridicule, skin, vilify |
| Main Entry: | kill |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | deprive of existence; destroy |
Synonyms: |
X-out, annihilate, asphyxiate, assassinate, crucify, dispatch, do away with, do in, drown, dump, electrocute, eradicate, erase*, execute, exterminate, extirpate, finish, garrote, get*, guillotine, hang, hit*, immolate, liquidate, lynch, massacre, murder, neutralize, obliterate, off*, poison, polish off, put away, put to death, rub out, sacrifice, slaughter, slay, smother, snuff, strangle, suffocate, waste*, wipe out, zap |
Antonyms: |
bear, create, give birth |
| Main Entry: | persecute |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | wrong, torment |
Synonyms: |
afflict, aggrieve, annoy, badger, bait, be on one's case, beat, bother, crucify, distress, dog*, dragoon, drive up the wall, exile, expel, harass, hector, hound, hunt, ill-treat, injure, maltreat, martyr, molest, oppress, outrage, pester, pick on, plague, pursue, tease, torture, tyrannize, vex, victimize, worry |
Antonyms: |
comfort, commend, console, reward, soothe |
| Main Entry: | rack |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | torture; strain |
Synonyms: |
afflict, agonize, crucify, distress, excruciate, force, harass, harrow, martyr, oppress, pain, persecute, pull, shake, stress, stretch, tear, torment, try, wrench, wring |
Antonyms: |
please, pleasure, soothe |
| Main Entry: | torment |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | be or make very upset |
Synonyms: |
abuse, afflict, agonize, annoy, bait, bedevil, bone, bother, break, crucify, devil, distress, drive bananas, drive up the wall, excruciate, give a hard time, harass, harrow, harry, heckle, hound, hurt, irritate, mistreat, molest, nag, pain, persecute, pester, plague, play cat and mouse, provoke, punish, put through wringer, rack, rub salt in wound, smite, tease, torture, trouble, try, vex, worry, wring |
Antonyms: |
delight, make happy, please |
| Main Entry: | torture |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | upset or hurt severely |
Synonyms: |
abuse, afflict, agonize, annoy, beat, bother, crucify, distress, disturb, excruciate, grill, harrow, impale, injure, irritate, lacerate, maim, mangle, martyr, martyrize, mistreat, mutilate, oppress, pain, persecute, rack, smite, torment, try, whip, wound, wring, wrong |
Antonyms: |
alleviate, make happy, please, relieve |