| crucify | (verb) criticize harshly or violently | Synonyms: blast, pillory, savage |
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| (verb) treat cruelly | Synonyms: bedevil, dun, frustrate, rag, torment |
| (verb) hold within limits and control | Synonyms: mortify, subdue |
| (verb) kill by nailing onto a cross | - |
| cruise | (verb) sail or travel about for pleasure, relaxation, or sightseeing | - |
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| (verb) travel at a moderate speed | - |
| (verb) drive around aimlessly but ostentatiously and at leisure | - |
| (verb) look for a sexual partner in a public place | - |
| crumb | (verb) remove crumbs from | - |
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| (verb) break into crumbs | - |
| (verb) coat with bread crumbs | - |
| crumble | (verb) break or fall apart into fragments | Synonyms: fall apart |
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| (verb) fall into decay or ruin | Synonyms: decay, dilapidate |
| (verb) fall apart | Synonyms: break down, collapse, crumple, tumble |
| crump | (verb) explode heavily or with a loud dull noise | - |
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| (verb) bombard with heavy shells | - |
| (verb) make a noise typical of an engine lacking lubricants | Synonyms: scrunch, thud |
| crumple | (verb) become wrinkled or crumpled or creased | Synonyms: crease, crinkle, rumple, wrinkle |
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| (verb) to gather something into small wrinkles or folds | Synonyms: cockle, knit, pucker, rumple |
| (verb) fold or collapse | Synonyms: buckle |
| (verb) fall apart | Synonyms: break down, collapse, crumble, tumble |
| crunch | (verb) reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading | Synonyms: bray, comminute, grind, mash |
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| (verb) make a crushing noise | Synonyms: crackle, scranch, scraunch |
| (verb) crush with the teeth, making a grinding sound | Synonyms: munch |
| (verb) press or grind with a crushing noise | Synonyms: cranch, craunch, grind |
| crusade | (verb) go on a crusade; fight a holy war | - |
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| (verb) exert oneself continuously, vigorously, or obtrusively to gain an end or engage in a crusade for a certain cause or person; be an advocate for | Synonyms: agitate, campaign, fight, press, push |
| crush | (verb) break into small pieces | - |
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| (verb) become injured, broken, or distorted by pressure | - |
| (verb) come out better in a competition, race, or conflict | Synonyms: beat, beat out, shell, trounce, vanquish |
| (verb) make ineffective | Synonyms: break down |
| (verb) to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition | Synonyms: mash, squash, squeeze, squelch |
| (verb) crush or bruise | Synonyms: jam |
| (verb) humiliate or depress completely | Synonyms: smash |
| (verb) come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority | Synonyms: oppress, suppress |
| crust | (verb) form a crust or form into a crust | - |
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