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Persecute

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

v. To oppress or harass with ill-treatment, especially because of race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or beliefs.

v. To annoy persistently; bother.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. To pursue in a manner to injure, grieve, or afflict; to beset with cruelty or malignity; to harass; especially, to afflict, harass, punish, or put to death for one's race, sexual identity, adherence to a particular religious creed, or mode of worship.

v. To harass with importunity; to pursue with persistent solicitations; to annoy.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

v. To pursue in a manner to injure, grieve, or afflict; to beset with cruelty or malignity; to harass; especially, to afflict, harass, punish, or put to death, for adherence to a particular religious creed or mode of worship.

v. To harass with importunity; to pursue with persistent solicitations; to annoy.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To pursue; follow close after.

To pursue with harassing or oppressive treatment; harass or afflict with repeated acts of cruelty or annoyance; injure or afflict persistently; specifically, to afflict, harass, or punish on account of opinions, as for adherence to a particular creed or system of religious principles, or to a mode of worship.

In a weakened sense, to harass or pursue with persistent attentions, solicitations, or other importunities; vex or annoy.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. cause to suffer

Word Usage

"And willingness to die for a hallucination one experiences and which happens to reinforce a fraudulent claim made by people one used to persecute, is a third thing."

Verb Form

persecuted persecutes persecuting

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

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Cross Reference

afflict beset urge

Hyponym

purge

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

harass annoy oppress worry distress

Same Context

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