Persecution

English

Noun

Persecution (uncountable)

1. The act of persecuting.
2. A program or campaign to subjugate or eliminate a specific group of people, often based on race, religion, sexuality, or social beliefs.

Verbs for Persecution

bewail—; criticize—; fear—; inflict—; in¬tensify—; intimidate by—; resist—; single out for—; subject to—; suffer—; temper—; —aggrieves; —dispirits; —grinds; —harasses; —haunts; —pains; —offends; —oppresses; —outrages; —tramples; —weighs.

Thesaurus

McCarthyism, abuse, affliction, aggravation, annoyance, bad news, bedevilment, bore, bother, botheration, bothersomeness, bullying, clawing, crashing bore, cruciation, crucifixion, devilment, difficulty, dogging, downer, drag, exasperation, harassing, harassment, harrying, headache, hectoring, hell, hell upon earth, holocaust, horror, hounding, ill-treatment, irritation, laceration, lancination, maltreatment, martyrdom, molestation, nightmare, nuisance, oppression, outrage, passion, pest, problem, punishment, purgatory, rack, red-baiting, subjugation, suppression, torment, tormenting, torture, trial, trouble, tyranny, vexation, vexatiousness, victimization, witch-hunt, witch-hunting, worriment, worry

Etymology

From Late Latin persecūtio (“chase, pursuit”) < Latin persequor (“follow up, pursue”) < per- (“through”) +‎ sequor (“follow”).

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Translations

The act of persecuting

Armenian: հալածանք (hy) (halaçank’) Dutch: vervolging (nl) f. Esperanto: persekutado (eo) Finnish: vainoaminen

French: persécution (fr) f. Kurdish: چه‌وساندنه‌وه‌ Spanish: persecución (es) f.

A program or campaign to subjugate or eliminate a specific group of people

Armenian: հալածանք (hy) (halaçank’) Dutch: vervolging (nl) f. Finnish: vaino (fi)

French: persécution (fr) f. Hebrew: רדיפה (he) (redifá) f.