Persecuting

Synonyms for "persecuting" (17 found)

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Closest matches (4)

Strong matches (5)

Related words (8)

Related word relations

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More general

10 entries
actbehaviordescriptive adjectiveill treatmentlegal actionlitigationmistreatmentmoral adjectiveoppressionpractice

More specific

13 entries
civil suitcriminal prosecutionethnic persecutionharassingmalicious prosecutionmass persecutionoppressivepolitical persecutionracial persecutionreligious persecutionsystemic harassmenttargeted intimidationtyrannical

Collocations

13 entries
persecuting actionspersecuting activistspersecuting authoritiespersecuting campaignpersecuting campaignspersecuting dissidentspersecuting journalistspersecuting minoritiespersecuting policiespersecuting political opponentspersecuting regimepersecuting regimespersecuting religious groups

Inflections

4 entries
more persecutingmost persecutingpersecutedpersecutes

Derivations

5 entries

Sample sentences

10 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.

Source: tatoeba (2818811)

After more than a century of persecuting Jews as communists and claiming "communists killed Jesus," Christians are now claiming Jesus was a communist who was killed by Jewish capitalists.

Source: tatoeba (8895693)

I know that Tom is persecuting me.

Source: tatoeba (10209167)

Multiple civilizations weren't built on appropriating the culture of white South Africans and persecuting and hounding them for continuing to exist.

Source: tatoeba (10360095)

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