Usually means: Execution by nailing to cross.
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  1. crucifixion, the Crucifixion, the crucifixion: Merriam-Webster
  2. Crucifixion, crucifixion, the Crucifixion: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. crucifixion: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. crucifixion, the Crucifixion: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Crucifixion, crucifixion: Vocabulary.com
  6. Crucifixion, crucifixion: Wordnik
  7. crucifixion, the Crucifixion, the crucifixion: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. crucifixion: Wiktionary
  9. crucifixion: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. crucifixion: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. crucifixion: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Crucifixion: Dictionary.com
  13. crucifixion: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Crucifixion (Antonello da Messina), Crucifixion (Bellini), Crucifixion (Bramantino), Crucifixion (Corpus Hypercubus), Crucifixion (El Greco), Crucifixion (Mantegna), Crucifixion (Masaccio), Crucifixion (Perugino and Signorelli), Crucifixion (Titian), Crucifixion (after van Eyck?), Crucifixion (disambiguation), Crucifixion (song), Crucifixion (van Dyck), Crucifixion (van Eyck), Crucifixion, The Crucifixion (Cranach), The Crucifixion (Stainer), The Crucifixion (film): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Crucifixion: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. crucifixion: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. crucifixion: Rhymezone
  18. Crucifixion: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. crucifixion: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. Crucifixion: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  21. crucifixion: FreeDictionary.org
  22. crucifixion: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. The Crucifixion, crucifixion: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. crucifixion: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. crucifixion: Legal dictionary

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  1. Crucifixion, The Crucifixion: Encyclopedia

Religion (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Crucifixion: Easton Bible
  2. Religious Tolerance (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of spiritual and religious terms (No longer online)
  4. Crucifixion: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. crucifixion: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See crucifixions as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  An execution by being nailed or tied to an upright cross and left to hang there until dead.
noun:  (Christianity, often capitalized) The death of Jesus Christ on the Cross.
noun:  (military, historical, colloquial) The military punishment of being tied to a fixed object, often with the limbs in a stretched position.
noun:  (figuratively) An ordeal, terrible, especially malicious treatment imposed upon someone.
noun:  (Christianity, often preceded by “the”) The death of Jesus on a cross; the crucifixion of Jesus.

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