Persecute Synonyms and Antonyms

pûrsĭ-kyo͝ot
To torment persistently
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. annoy
  2. worry
  3. tease
Antonyms:
  1. reward
  2. commend
  3. soothe
  4. console
  5. comfort

Words Related to Persecute

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Persecute Sentence Examples

  • 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.

  • He appears only concerned to follow the instructions he receives from Tehran, namely to persecute Iranian refugees in Iraq.

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