martyred

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The good will be martyred; the Holy Father will have much to suffer; various nations will be annihilated.

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Quick take

(transitive) To persecute.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of martyred gathered in one view.

verb

(transitive) To persecute.

verb

(transitive) To torment; to torture.

verb

(transitive) To make someone into a martyr by putting them to death for adhering to, or acting in accordance with, some belief, especially religious; to sacrifice on account of faith or profession.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for martyred.

verb

(transitive) To persecute.

verb

(transitive) To torment; to torture.

verb

(transitive) To make someone into a martyr by putting them to death for adhering to, or acting in accordance with, some belief, especially religious; to sacrifice on account of faith or profession.

Example sentences

The good will be martyred; the Holy Father will have much to suffer; various nations will be annihilated.

It communicates to others that if they have a minor platform and are well-liked, they can be martyred too.

Bomb making technology and the willingness to be martyred in a plane attack have increased since 9/11.

Khamenei was dying and hoped to be martyred and the US regime gave him his wish.

Then I just turn into a harmless, martyred caricature rather than as a living, thinking human being--nothing subversive there.

The fact that they are martyrs is secondary and the argument could be made that they were martyred because of their political success.

So the people who were martyred wouldn't have died for nothing, perhaps.

He's a martyred saint for a new ideology that's just being born.

It's infinitely more valid of a supposition to assume he martyred himself.

Do it loudly and you may be martyred without political gain.

And four anarchists were martyred by the state via hanging.

One common response to the general argument is that most of Jesus' disciples were martyred and would have had no motivation to die for a lie.

Quote examples

Swartz was in effect martyred by the US Government over an "information wants to be free" matter of idealism.

What relevance has "representative parliamentary democracy" to your argument other than to make you feel martyred?

Lind (given that she will be the single-point-of-lightning-rod for any sentence adjudged) would not be that stupid as she probably has better things to do than get "martyred" herself after the trial is over.

" I find still that there are only so many paintings of Jesus and martyred saints I can look at consecutively before my eyes glaze over " Heh, that I can believe.