All martyrize synonyms

verb martyrize

• torment — to afflict with great bodily or mental suffering; pain: to be tormented with violent headaches.
• annoy — If someone or something annoys you, it makes you fairly angry and impatient.
• injure — to do or cause harm of any kind to; damage; hurt; impair: to injure one's hand.
• wound — the act of winding.
• sadden — make sad
• upset — to overturn: to upset a pitcher of milk.
• sting — to prick or wound with a sharp-pointed, often venom-bearing organ.
• punish — to subject to pain, loss, confinement, death, etc., as a penalty for some offense, transgression, or fault: to punish a criminal.
• constrain — To constrain someone or something means to limit their development or force them to behave in a particular way.
• disturb — to interrupt the quiet, rest, peace, or order of; unsettle.
• beat — If you beat someone or something, you hit them very hard.
• mistreat — to treat badly or abusively.
• maim — to deprive of the use of some part of the body by wounding or the like; cripple: The explosion maimed him for life.
• mutilate — to injure, disfigure, or make imperfect by removing or irreparably damaging parts: Vandals mutilated the painting.
• oppress — to burden with cruel or unjust impositions or restraints; subject to a burdensome or harsh exercise of authority or power: a people oppressed by totalitarianism.
• torture — the act of inflicting excruciating pain, as punishment or revenge, as a means of getting a confession or information, or for sheer cruelty.
• hang — to fasten or attach (a thing) so that it is supported only from above or at a point near its own top; suspend.
• harrow — a borough of Greater London, in SE England.
• kill — to deprive of life in any manner; cause the death of; slay. Synonyms: slaughter, massacre, butcher; hang, electrocute, behead, guillotine, strangle, garrote; assassinate.
• persecute — to pursue with harassing or oppressive treatment, especially because of religious or political beliefs, ethnic or racial origin, gender identity, or sexual orientation.
• martyr — a person who willingly suffers death rather than renounce his or her religion.
• rack — the neck portion of mutton, pork, or veal.
• distress — great pain, anxiety, or sorrow; acute physical or mental suffering; affliction; trouble.
• afflict — If you are afflicted by pain, illness, or disaster, it affects you badly and makes you suffer.
• displease — to incur the dissatisfaction, dislike, or disapproval of; offend; annoy: His reply displeased the judge.
• zing — vitality, animation, or zest.
• vex — to irritate; annoy; provoke: His noisy neighbors often vexed him.
• vitiate — to impair the quality of; make faulty; spoil.
• lambaste — to beat or whip severely.
• burn — If there is a fire or a flame somewhere, you say that there is a fire or flame burning there.
• abuse — Abuse of someone is cruel and violent treatment of them.
• aggrieve — to grieve; distress; afflict
• chafe — If your skin chafes or is chafed by something, it becomes sore as a result of something rubbing against it.
• discomfit — to confuse and deject; disconcert: to be discomfited by a question.
• faze — to cause to be disturbed or disconcerted; daunt: The worst insults cannot faze him.
• grieve — to feel grief or great sorrow: She has grieved over his death for nearly three years.
• try — to attempt to do or accomplish: Try it before you say it's simple.
• prejudice — an unfavorable opinion or feeling formed beforehand or without knowledge, thought, or reason.
• discommode — to cause inconvenience to; disturb, trouble, or bother.
• crucify — If someone is crucified, they are killed by being tied or nailed to a cross and left to die.
• smite — to strike or hit hard, with or as with the hand, a stick, or other weapon: She smote him on the back with her umbrella.
• pain — physical suffering or distress, as due to injury, illness, etc.
• grill — a grating or openwork barrier, as for a gate, usually of metal and often of decorative design.
• agonize — If you agonize over something, you feel very anxious about it and spend a long time thinking about it.
• wring — to twist forcibly: He wrung the chicken's neck.
• bother — If you do not bother to do something or if you do not bother with it, you do not do it, consider it, or use it because you think it is unnecessary or because you are too lazy.
• lacerate — to tear roughly; mangle: The barbed wire lacerated his hands.
• irritate — to excite to impatience or anger; annoy.
• wrong — not in accordance with what is morally right or good: a wrong deed.
• impale — to fasten, stick, or fix upon a sharpened stake or the like.