Persecute synonyms

pûr'sĭ-kyo͝ot'

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abuse (related)
To use improperly or excessively; misuse:
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bother (related)
(Intransitive) To feel care or anxiety; to make or take trouble; to be troublesome.
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wrong (related)
To wrong is to act improperly towards someone or to improperly accuse someone of something bad.
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patronize (antonym)
To be kind or helpful to, but in a haughty or snobbish way, as if dealing with an inferior
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aggrieve
To distress; afflict.
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right (related)
Right means correctly, completely, thoroughly or exactly.
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endorse (antonym)
To give approval to; support; sanction
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afflict
To cause (someone) pain, suffering or distress.
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harass
To subject (another) to hostile or prejudicial remarks or actions; pressure or intimidate.
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hector
To browbeat; bully
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bait
To entice or provoke, especially by trickery or strategy:
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victimize
To punish someone unjustly.
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tyrannize
To govern or use authority harshly or cruelly; be oppressive
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outrage
Outrage is defined as to deeply insult someone, or to commit a violent act against someone.
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ill-treat
To treat unkindly or harshly.
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oppress
To weigh heavily on the mind, spirits, or senses of; worry; trouble
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torment
(Rare) To torture
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torture
To overwork, misinterpret, or distort:
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rack
To torture by means of the rack.
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flog
To whip or scourge someone or something as punishment.
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strike
To hit.
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beat
To strike repeatedly.
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scourge
To afflict with severe or widespread suffering and devastation; ravage.
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kill
(Intransitive, informal) To produce intense pain.
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crucify
To put (a person) to death by nailing or binding to a cross.
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maltreat
To treat badly, to abuse. [from 18th c.]
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banish
To expel, especially from the mind.
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expel
To dismiss or send away by authority; deprive of rights, membership, etc.
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exile
To send into exile; banish:
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annoy
To disturb or irritate, especially by continued or repeated acts; to bother with unpleasant deeds.
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worry
To manage to get (along or through) in the face of trials and difficulties
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tease
To provoke or disturb; to annoy.
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encourage (antonym)
To foster, give help or patronage
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oppression
Oppression means feeling weighed down physically or emotionally.
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paranoia
(Psychiatry) A mental disorder characterized by systematized delusions, as of grandeur or, esp., persecution, often, except in a schizophrenic state, with an otherwise relatively intact personality
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persecution
The act or practice of persecuting on the basis of race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or beliefs that differ from those of the persecutor.
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tyranny
An oppressive or harshly limiting condition:
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badger
To badger is to annoy, pester or get on someone's nerves.
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dragoon
To subjugate or persecute by the imposition of troops.
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harry
Harry is defined as to raid, or to quickly move along.
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hound
To make repeated demands of or subject to persistent criticism:
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importune
To annoy; vex.
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martyr
To torment; to torture.
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molest
To annoy, interfere with, or meddle with so as to trouble or harm, or with intent to trouble or harm
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pester
Pester is defined as to pick on or irritate.
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reward (antonym)
Bible, 1 Sam. xxiv. 17
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commend (antonym)
The definition of commend means to recommend or praise someone or leave someone in the care of another.
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soothe (antonym)
Soothe is defined as to calm or relieve.
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console (antonym)
To comfort (someone) in a time of grief, disappointment, etc.
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comfort (antonym)
To soothe in distress or sorrow; ease the misery or grief of; bring consolation or hope to
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vilify (related)
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despise (related)
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revile (related)
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enslave (related)
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imprison (related)
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punish (related)
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mistreat (related)
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demonise (related)
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put-to-death (related)
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  • For when after death the powers of the air throng around and persecute, the soul flees into the first lodging of clay that it finds.

  • Even Foxe records instances in which Bonner failed to persecute.

  • But the affairs of Lombardy left him no leisure to persecute a recalcitrant pontiff.

  • When emperors became converts, the church, so lately a victim and a pleader for liberty, readily learned to persecute.

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