persecute

IPA: pˈɝsʌkjut

verb

To pursue in a manner to do harm or cruelty to; especially, because of the victim's race, sexual identity, or adherence to a particular belief.
To harass with importunity; to pursue with persistent solicitations; to annoy.
To kill many of one species of animal, with the intent of removing them from human habitats.

Examples of "persecute" in Sentences

Don't persecute the local prophet.
The rulers were now the persecuted.
It's really easy to force people to react badly and "persecute" you for your "message" simply by being a jerk.
To be persecuted is not wholly a calamity, but to persecute is to do that for which Nature affords no compensation.
There was no "working in tandem" between Harvard and the FBI, and no effort to "persecute" him by anyone at Harvard.
Now the Greens, the inverts, and the liberals want them hunted down and abolished as a racist group of fascists who want to 'persecute' sodomites.
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.
His reasons came from his China service, belief that Nixon was more right than the press&media that was out to hang him ever since he helped "persecute" Hiss and their Hollywood relatives.
So for instance a bigot who’s racist or homophobic and who’s told that his actions to discriminate are unacceptable goes on television and says that the people he/she’s trying to persecute is anti-religious …
Here is one triumphant party with arms in their hand, who have only, if they wish, to mark out a victim, and declare his religion and principles as hostile to the state; and, lo! they are at liberty, by their own regulations, to 'persecute' him!
But I do not know anyone who is personally hurt (as opposed to theoretically offended on behalf of theoretical others) by the use of gyp, and (as I put it in the original discussion, when persecution was brought up) "None of the people who persecute the Roma use the word, and none of the people who use the word persecute Roma."
Nay, it would show that Jesus has not saved the world, if we can go on and speak of him as an actual existence, born of a virgin and risen from the dead, and in his name persecute one another -- oppose the advance of science, deny freedom of thought, terrorize children and women with pictures of hell-fire and seek to establish a spiritual monopoly in the world, when the evidence in hand seems clearly to indicate that such a person never existed.

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