crucify

Other forms of crucify

past tense or participle

crucified

present participle

crucifying·

third person

crucifies·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about crucify

What does crucify mean?

crucify means "kill by nailing onto a cross". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in crucify?

crucify has 3 syllables: cru-ci-fy. The stress falls on "cru". In IPA it is /ˈkɹusəˌfaɪ/.

What is another word for crucify?

Close synonyms include torment, rag, bedevil, dun, frustrate. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is crucify a common word?

crucify is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with crucify?

72 words rhyme with crucify. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.