Synonym: campaign, cause, drive, movement. Similar words: perusal, jerusalem, crush, crust, crushed, crustacean, scrub brush, procrustean. Meaning: [kruː'seɪd] 
n. 1. a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end 2. 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. v. 1. 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 2. go on a crusade; fight a holy war.
n. 1. a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end 2. 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. v. 1. 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 2. go on a crusade; fight a holy war. 
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61. In the civil war of 324 he had represented his military campaign as a crusade against a corrupt paganism.
62. He had gone with Richard on crusade and had shared with him the hazards of the perilous journey home.
63. The emergence of the Women's Peace Crusade was symptomatic of a growing war-weariness among the population at large.
64. Minor went to Bonnie in hopes of finding capital, but Bonnie liked the idea so much he joined the crusade.
65. Graham, who preached in San Jose earlier, moves his crusade to Oakland in two weeks.
66. He was inaugurating Labour's national crusade on jobs, which will be concentrated on marginal Tory constituencies.
67. I hope that there will be a crusade in the coming years to encourage more reading in every home in our country.
68. At first I thought this peculiar, then I adjusted to the notion, then I joined her crusade.
69. Henry had set his house in order but had no thoughts about setting off on crusade.
70. As a result, crusade volunteers worked overtime to generate support.
71. At the age of fourteen, Bona set off to visit her father, who was a soldier on crusade in Jerusalem.
72. The subject was the courageous crusade of a Somerset doctor, Geoffrey Taylor, who was dying of cancer.Sentencedict
73. As a politician she's made the fight for women's rights into a personal crusade.
74. The Empire Crusade ran its first independent candidate at the Bromley by-election.
75. He is on a constant crusade to take the church to the people.
76. Anthony Gould was said to be one of the most unpopular men in the prison because of a crusade against drug abuse.
77. But the outcome only serves to emphasize the sadistic element in the popular doctrine of the crusade.
78. Typically when the Graham crusade goes into a community, it garners participation from a third of the local churches.
79. They see the United States as fighting a proxy counterinsurgency war disguised as a crusade against drugs.
80. The defeat of inflation - a permanent, unrelenting crusade - has to be foremost among any wise Government's objectives.
81. The Crusade received very substantial financial backing for the organization of the march from the right-wing military and political parties.
82. And he intends to crusade for the return of the blocks.
83. The Empire Crusade was designed to cause the maximum trouble for the Conservative leadership.
84. The Sandinistas quickly conceded the principle of bilingual education, and incorporated local languages into the 1980 literacy crusade.
85. In Nizan's imagination it assumed the status of a moral crusade.
86. And to a penitent soldier a crusade was even better than an unarmed pilgrimage.
87. In the crusade for civil rights, the federal government sets a uniform standard that overrides local prejudices.
88. He headed the troops to crusade against the rebellion.
89. First Crusade expels vampires from The Holy Land, Jerusalem.
90. Has your peaceful nature led you on a crusade?
More similar words: perusal, jerusalem, crush, crust, crushed, crustacean, scrub brush, procrustean, sad, sadly, sadism, sadist, saddle, sadden, usage, sadness, usable, causal, call a spade a spade, sadistic, sausage, thousand, refusal, espousal, unusable, reusable, thousands, ambassador, anwar sadat, causality.