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What does crusade mean?

crusade

— noun (= campaign, cause, drive, movement, effort) a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end he supported populist campaigns they worked in the cause of world peace the team was ready for a drive toward the pennant the movement to end slavery contributed to the war effort — verb go on a crusade; fight a holy war — verb (= push) 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 The liberal party pushed for reforms She is crusading for women's rights The Dean is pushing for his favorite candidate

Crusade

— noun any of the more or less continuous military expeditions in the 11th to 13th centuries when Christian powers of Europe tried to recapture the Holy Land from the Muslims

Synonyms crusade synonyms

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Topics crusade topics

What do people use crusade to talk about?
Social behavior Conflict Fight

Fight for something good
Social behavior Conflict Fight

Fight against something bad

Conjugation crusade conjugation

How do you conjugate crusade?

crusade · verb

Examples crusade examples

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Movie subtitles

And with me shall come the great Crusade.
I go to preach the great Crusade.
And so I have come to summon you, Philip, Lord King of France to war for your faith to lead the multitudes on Crusade to free the city that was hallowed by the footsteps of our Lord.
I give to God that the gates of Jerusalem may be opened and the tomb of our Lord set free by this Crusade.
Crusade.
The sign of the Crusade.
The Crusade?
Richard of England, will you join the Crusade, forsaking all else?
That you will not turn aside from the Crusade until the Holy City is again free?
Out with your steel, men, for the Crusade!
For the Crusade!
John, supposing your brother, Richard, does not return from this Crusade?
Would England and France when the Crusade is won make me King of Jerusalem?
The Crusade goes forward!
So what? They weren't on a crusade.
My father was betrothed to my mother before he went on his crusade. but when he was returning, he fell ill of a wound-very nearly died of it.
As your uncle may have heard, milady. during the Crusade I was imprisoned briefly in several Saracen jails. but only briefly.
All a part of the human crusade, written in water.
This was no longer the mere pursuit of a freighter by a naval vessel but a crusade against the criminals of the Ergenstrasse.
Our crusade was so stupid, only an idealist could have invented it.
You convinced my master to go to the Holy Land on an honorable crusade.
Just how have you been able to carry out your crusade, Captain without the Nautilus in operation?
My whole life has been a crusade for larger families.
This is a shining crusade.
I've destroyed the crusade.
I'll crusade for truth. Ruthlessly.
It says they're good only if you're going on a crusade. and I don't think you wanna take that much time off from work.
Sir Murdoch MacRashley died in the Third Crusade beneath the walls of Saint Jean d'Acre.
And crusade for a thousand lost causes, but he had no time for his family.
In the 12th century, at the close of the Third Crusade to free the Holy Land a Saxon knight, called Wilfred of Ivanhoe undertook a private crusade of his own.
You want me for your private crusade.
A lost crusade.
Before this sacred crusade, before this big journey, we must give the oath of friendship.
And they weren't exactly on a crusade.
Lord Cardinal, two years ago. I asked permission to go with some of my brothers on a Crusade.
I'm leading a crusade, son.
A world crusade for freedom.
His crusade to bring this whole operation to a grinding halt, Mr Sutton.
I wouldn't have guessed this crusade to be so tormented.

News and current affairs

The report challenges the core principles of a faith-driven administration and of a president whose political gospel led him to a sharp departure from the culture of conflict resolution in favor of a crusade based on raw power.
That has also been the result of Bush's ill-conceived democracy crusade in the Arab world.
Instead of focusing the Bank's attention on helping the poorest countries to improve their infrastructure, he launched a crusade against corruption.
Their answer is a revived Western world, led by the United States, engaged in an armed crusade for democracy.
Putin sees his own crusade to save Russia from disintegration and separatism as similar to Alexander's.
Ever since September 11, 2001, the United States has been engaged in a crusade against the forces of evil in the Muslim world.
On global issues, it has not backed the US in the Iraq war, it does not tolerate American disdain for multilateralism and it is unwilling to join the anti-terror crusade.
Perhaps the most famous investigating magistrate of all, Spain's Baltasar Garzon, is usually portrayed as waging a borderless crusade for justice.
The Republican-backed crusade against a key agreement negotiated by a Democratic president, with his party's overwhelming support, has threatened the bipartisan foundations of Israel's cause in America.
The problem with the US drive to have key stakeholders join its anti-Iran crusade is that some of them live in neighborhoods where Iran is an important factor. India is a case in point.
In the rest of the continent, the other left - the one deemed reliable by Wall Street and London bankers - will not join Chavez's postures, but neither will it join a crusade to unseat him.

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