crucifixion

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: cru=ci=fix=ion

CIDE DICTIONARY

crucifixion, n. 

•  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.  [1913 Webster]
•  The state of one who is nailed or fastened to a cross; death upon a cross.  [1913 Webster]
•  Intense suffering or affliction; painful trial.  [1913 Webster]

  "Do ye prove
  What crucifixions are in love?"  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

crucifixion, n.
1 a crucifying or being crucified. b an instance of this.
2 (Crucifixion) a the crucifixion of Christ. b a representation of this.

Etymology

eccl.L crucifixio (as CRUCIFIX)

THESAURUS

crucifixion

agony, anguish, atrocious pain, beheading, burning, capital punishment, clawing, cruciation, decapitation, decollation, defenestration, electrocution, excruciation, execution, fusillade, garrote, gassing, hanging, hell, hell upon earth, hemlock, holocaust, horror, judicial murder, laceration, lancination, lapidation, martyrdom, martyrization, necktie party, nightmare, passion, persecution, poisoning, purgatory, rack, shooting, stoning, strangling, strangulation, the ax, the block, the chair, the gallows, the gas chamber, the guillotine, the hot seat, the rope, torment, torture

ROGET THESAURUS

crucifixion

Punishment

N punishment, punition, chastisement, chastening, correction, castigation, discipline, infliction, trial, judgment, penalty, retribution, thunderbolt, Nemesis, requital, penology, retributive justice, lash, scaffold, imprisonment, transportation, banishment, expulsion, exile, involuntary exile, ostracism, penal servitude, hard labor, galleys, beating, flagellation, fustigation, gantlet, strappado, estrapade, bastinado, argumentum baculinum, stick law, rap on the knuckles, box on the ear, blow, stripe, cuff, kick, buffet, pummel, slap, slap in the face, wipe, douse, coup de grace, torture, rack, picket, picketing, dragonnade, capital punishment, execution, lethal injection, the gas chamber, hanging, electrocution, rail-riding, scarpines, decapitation, decollation, garrotte, garrotto, crucifixion, impalement, firing squad, martyrdom, auto-da-fe, noyade, happy dispatch, hara-kiri, seppuku, drinking the hemlock, punishing, penal, punitory, punitive, inflictive, castigatory, punished, Int, a la lanterne!, culpan paena premit comes, eating the bitter bread of banishment, gravis ira regum est semper, sera tamen tacitis paena venit pedibus, suo sibi gladio hunc jugulo.

Physical Pain

N physical pain, pain, suffering, sufferance, suffrance, bodily pain, physical pain, bodily suffering, physical suffering, body pain, mental suffering, dolour, ache, aching, smart, shoot, shooting, twinge, twitch, gripe, headache, stomach ache, heartburn, angina, angina pectoris, hurt, cut, sore, soreness, discomfort, malaise, cephalalgia, earache, gout, ischiagra, lumbago, neuralgia, odontalgia, otalgia, podagra, rheumatism, sciatica, tic douloureux, toothache, tormina, torticollis, spasm, cramp, nightmare, ephialtes, crick, stitch, thrill, convulsion, throe, throb, pang, colic, kink, sharp pain, piercing pain, throbbing pain, shooting pain, sting, gnawing pain, burning pain, excruciating pain, anguish, agony, torment, torture, rack, cruciation, crucifixion, martyrdom, toad under a harrow, vivisection, in pain, in a state of pain, pained, gouty, podagric, torminous, painful, aching, sore, raw, Special Sensation (1) Touch.