crucifies

Definition of crucifiesnext
present tense third-person singular of crucify

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Verb
  • Cast members performed on The Tonight Show and in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade and made a surprise appearance on Saturday Night Live, in a sketch in which host Bad Bunny berates his friends for failing to grasp the movie’s brilliance.
    Eliza Berman, Time, 9 Dec. 2025
  • In another clip, his mother berates Pormanove over the phone for letting the co-streamers shave off parts of his hair.
    Philippe Cordier, CNN Money, 20 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Opposition criticizes the deal Skerrit provided few details on how his island, still facing a housing shortage after Category 5 Hurricane Maria devastated the island in September 2017, plans to accommodate the refugees.
    Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 7 Jan. 2026
  • Animal rights is not the only point on which Sliwa criticizes the president.
    Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 28 Dec. 2025
Verb
  • Or on Bluesky with the joke scolds, or on Mastodon with the Linux hackers, or on Threads with the voice-forward brands?
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 Nov. 2025
  • The crew sets sail to the North Pole and Anderson scolds his crew to be more focused.
    Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 10 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • Hernández blames the regime for personal pain, too.
    Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2026
  • The master lawsuit in the Palisades fire blames several defendants for overgrown brush, toppled wooden power poles, natural gas explosions and a lack of water that all contributed to the mammoth blaze.
    Tony Saavedra, Daily News, 6 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • Hamas, which initially accepted the ceasefire text, now denounces the framework as an effort to turn an emergency pause into a permanent security order.
    Mohammed R. Mhawish, New Yorker, 29 Dec. 2025
  • One celebrates the beauty and moral uplift of the Sabbath; the other denounces the immorality of the godless in the fiery manner of a tent-revival preacher.
    Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 22 Dec. 2025
Verb
  • In the Gospels, Jesus faults the Pharisees for insisting on a legalistic Sabbath.
    Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 22 Dec. 2025
  • The group’s memo faults the NDAA on two fronts.
    Brett Samuels, The Hill, 8 Dec. 2025
Verb
  • By contrast, Eugenia condemns herself to a future of festering tension and fury.
    Rachel Vorona Cote, The Atlantic, 5 Jan. 2026
  • The government condemns the reprehensible attack on innocent students and the killing of school officials who were carrying out their noble duty.
    Ashley Carnahan , Paul Tilsley, FOXNews.com, 18 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • Three weeks later, in early October, Kim knocks on Helen’s door.
    Sadia Shepard, New Yorker, 11 Jan. 2026
  • One of the biggest knocks on him is his lack of experience.
    Antwan Staley, New York Daily News, 8 Jan. 2026
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“Crucifies.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crucifies. Accessed 14 Jan. 2026.

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