| Martyrdom 1. (n.) Suffering death or persecution for one's beliefs; the suffering of death on account of adherence to the Christian faith, or to any cause. 2. (n.) Affliction; torment; torture. Thesaurus Entries agony, anguish, atrocious pain, bane, blood, bloodletting, bloodshed, braining, clawing, confinement, cruciation, crucifixion, dealing death, destruction, destruction of life, dismemberment, dispatch, estrapade, euthanasia, excruciation, execution, extermination, flow of blood, galleys, gore, hard labor, hell, hell upon earth, holocaust, horror, immolation, impalement, imprisonment, incarceration, jailing, keelhauling, kill, killing, laceration, lancination, lapidation, martyrization, mercy killing, nightmare, passion, penal servitude, persecution, picketing, poisoning, purgatory, rack, railriding, ritual killing, ritual murder, rock pile, sacrifice, shooting, slaughter, slaying, stoning, strappado, taking of life, tar-and-feathering, the gantlet, torment, torture |