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/ˈpɝsəkjut/ · 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..
He who persecutes one will persecute all.
I have heard, brethren, how sharply Antichrist persecuteth you, in vexing the faithful servants of Christ with divers and strange kinds of afflictions.
"Do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you."
One of the village's most notable sons was Thomas Grantham, a Baptist church leader born in 1634, who was persecuted and imprisoned in the struggle for nonconformist beliefs during the reign of Charles II.
Humans have been persecuting wolves in this forest for centuries.
Use persecute when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Persecute means 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..
Common synonyms include oppress, harass, distress, annoy.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
He who persecutes one will persecute all.
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