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Crucify

To fasten to a cross; to put to death by nailing the hands and feet to a cross or gibbet.

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Manner of action 10

Badger 76% connected

An itinerant licensed dealer in commodities used for food; a hawker; a huckster; -- formerly applied especially to one who bought grain in one place…

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Beleaguer 76% connected

To surround with an army so as to preclude escape; to besiege; to blockade.

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Bug 76% connected

A bugbear; anything which terrifies.

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Hamstring 76% connected

One of the great tendons situated in each side of the ham, or space back of the knee, and connected with the muscles of the back of the thigh.

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Madden 76% connected

To make mad; to drive to madness; to craze; to excite violently with passion; to make very angry; to enrage.

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Mortify 76% connected

To destroy the organic texture and vital functions of; to produce gangrene in.

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Oppress 76% connected

To impose excessive burdens upon; to overload; hence, to treat with unjust rigor or with cruelty.

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Persecute 76% connected

To pursue in a manner to injure, grieve, or afflict; to beset with cruelty or malignity; to harass; especially, to afflict, harass, punish, or put to…

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Pester 76% connected

To trouble; to disturb; to annoy; to harass with petty vexations.

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Tease 76% connected

To comb or card, as wool or flax.

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Broader term 17

Beset 76% connected

of Beset

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Check 76% connected

A word of warning denoting that the king is in danger; such a menace of a player's king by an adversary's move as would, if it were any other piece,…

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Chevy 76% connected

See Chivy, v. t.

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Chivy 76% connected

To goad, drive, hunt, throw, or pitch.

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Contain 76% connected

To hold within fixed limits; to comprise; to include; to inclose; to hold.

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Control 76% connected

A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register; a counter register.

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Criticise 76% connected

To examine and judge as a critic; to pass literary or artistic judgment upon; as, to criticise an author; to criticise a picture.

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Curb 76% connected

To bend or curve

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Execute 76% connected

To follow out or through to the end; to carry out into complete effect; to complete; to finish; to effect; to perform.

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Harass 76% connected

To fatigue; to tire with repeated and exhausting efforts; esp., to weary by importunity, teasing, or fretting; to cause to endure excessive burdens o…

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Harry 76% connected

To strip; to lay waste; as, the Northmen came several times and harried the land.

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Hold 76% connected

The whole interior portion of a vessel below the lower deck, in which the cargo is stowed.

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Knock 76% connected

To drive or be driven against something; to strike against something; to clash; as, one heavy body knocks against another.

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Moderate 76% connected

Kept within due bounds; observing reasonable limits; not excessive, extreme, violent, or rigorous; limited; restrained

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Molest 76% connected

To trouble; to disturb; to render uneasy; to interfere with; to vex.

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Plague 76% connected

That which smites, wounds, or troubles; a blow; a calamity; any afflictive evil or torment; a great trail or vexation.

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Provoke 76% connected

To call forth; to call into being or action; esp., to incense to action, a faculty or passion, as love, hate, or ambition; hence, commonly, to incite…

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Derivationally related 6

Crucifix 74% connected

A representation in art of the figure of Christ upon the cross; esp., the sculptured figure affixed to a real cross of wood, ivory, metal, or the lik…

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Crucifix 74% connected

A representation in art of the figure of Christ upon the cross; esp., the sculptured figure affixed to a real cross of wood, ivory, metal, or the lik…

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Crucifixion 74% connected

The act of nailing or fastening a person to a cross, for the purpose of putting him to death; the use of the cross as a method of capital punishment.

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Crucifixion 74% connected

The act of nailing or fastening a person to a cross, for the purpose of putting him to death; the use of the cross as a method of capital punishment.

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Frustration 74% connected

The act of frustrating; disappointment; defeat; as, the frustration of one's designs

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Frustration 74% connected

The act of frustrating; disappointment; defeat; as, the frustration of one's designs

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Entails 3

Abstain 72% connected

To hold one's self aloof; to forbear or refrain voluntarily, and especially from an indulgence of the passions or appetites; -- with from.

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Desist 72% connected

To cease to proceed or act; to stop; to forbear; -- often with from.

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Refrain 72% connected

To hold back; to restrain; to keep within prescribed bounds; to curb; to govern.

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Synonym 10

Bedevil 92% connected

To throw into utter disorder and confusion, as if by the agency of evil spirits; to bring under diabolical influence; to torment.

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Blast 92% connected

A violent gust of wind.

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Dun 92% connected

A mound or small hill.

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Frustrate 92% connected

Vain; ineffectual; useless; unprofitable; null; voil; nugatory; of no effect.

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Mortify 92% connected

To destroy the organic texture and vital functions of; to produce gangrene in.

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Pillory 92% connected

A frame of adjustable boards erected on a post, and having holes through which the head and hands of an offender were thrust so as to be exposed in f…

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Rag 92% connected

To scold or rail at; to rate; to tease; to torment; to banter.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Savage 92% connected

Of or pertaining to the forest; remote from human abodes and cultivation; in a state of nature; wild; as, a savage wilderness.

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Subdue 92% connected

To bring under; to conquer by force or the exertion of superior power, and bring into permanent subjection; to reduce under dominion; to vanquish.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Torment 92% connected

An engine for casting stones.

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