- 1crusade (for/against something) crusade (to do something) a long and determined effort to achieve something that you believe to be right or to stop something that you believe to be wrong synonym campaign to lead a crusade against crime a moral crusade a crusade to give terminally ill people the right to die
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- 2Crusade any of the wars fought in Palestine by European Christian countries against the Muslims in the Middle Ages
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