Persecution is a bad and indirect way to plant Religion.
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Persecution
//ˌpɝsəˈkjuʃən//
Synonyms for "persecution" (69 found)
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Related words (34)
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15 entriesTranslations
60 translations across 41 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- διωγμός noun (the act of persecuting)
Arabic
1 entries- اِضْطِهَاد noun (the act of persecuting)
Armenian
1 entries- հալածանք noun (the act of persecuting)
Bourguignon
1 entries- porsécucion noun (the act of persecuting)
Bulgarian
2 entries- гонение noun (the act of persecuting)
- преследване noun (the act of persecuting)
Catalan
1 entries- persecució noun (the act of persecuting)
Central Kurdish
1 entries- چەوساندنەوە noun (the act of persecuting)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 迫害 noun (the act of persecuting)
Czech
1 entries- perzekuce noun (the act of persecuting)
Danish
1 entries- forfølgelse noun (the act of persecuting)
Dutch
1 entries- vervolging noun (the act of persecuting)
Esperanto
1 entries- persekutado noun (the act of persecuting)
Finnish
3 entries- sorto noun (the act of persecuting)
- vaino noun (the act of persecuting)
- vainoaminen noun (the act of persecuting)
French
1 entries- persécution noun (the act of persecuting)
Georgian
1 entries- დევნა noun (the act of persecuting)
German
4 entries- Belästigung noun (the act of persecuting)
- Drangsalierung noun (the act of persecuting)
- Plage noun (the act of persecuting)
- Schikane noun (the act of persecuting)
Gothic
2 entries- 𐍅𐍂𐌰𐌺𐌰 noun (the act of persecuting)
- 𐍅𐍂𐌴𐌺𐌴𐌹 noun (the act of persecuting)
Greek
2 entries- δίωξη noun (the act of persecuting)
- καταδίωξη noun (the act of persecuting)
Hebrew
1 entries- רדיפה noun (the act of persecuting)
Hindi
2 entries- प्रताड़ना noun (the act of persecuting)
- सताना noun (the act of persecuting)
Hungarian
2 entries- üldöztetés noun (the act of persecuting)
- üldözés noun (the act of persecuting)
Irish
1 entries- géarleanúint noun (the act of persecuting)
Italian
1 entries- persecuzione noun (the act of persecuting)
Japanese
1 entries- 迫害 noun (the act of persecuting)
Korean
1 entries- 박해 noun (the act of persecuting)
Ladino
2 entries- afriisyon noun (the act of persecuting)
- afrision noun (the act of persecuting)
Luxembourgish
1 entries- Verfollegung noun (the act of persecuting)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- forfølgelse noun (the act of persecuting)
Old English
1 entries- ēhtnes noun (the act of persecuting)
Persian
1 entries- آزار noun (the act of persecuting)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- Forcht noun (the act of persecuting)
Polish
1 entries- prześladowanie noun (the act of persecuting)
Portuguese
1 entries- perseguição noun (the act of persecuting)
Romanian
1 entries- persecutare noun (the act of persecuting)
Russian
4 entries- гоне́ние noun (the act of persecuting)
- напа́дки noun (the act of persecuting)
- пресле́дование noun (the act of persecuting)
- тра́вля noun (the act of persecuting)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- proganjanje noun (the act of persecuting)
- progon noun (the act of persecuting)
Spanish
3 entries- cacería noun (the act of persecuting)
- persecución noun (the act of persecuting)
- prosecución noun (the act of persecuting)
Swedish
1 entries- förföljelse noun (the act of persecuting)
Turkish
1 entries- zulüm noun (the act of persecuting)
Vietnamese
1 entries- sự khủng bố noun (the act of persecuting)
Yiddish
2 entries- פֿאַרפֿאָלגונג noun (the act of persecuting)
- רדיפֿה noun (the act of persecuting)
Sample sentences
15 total sentences available.
Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution.
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Stop the persecution!
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In spite of the tyrant’s persecution, the hero valiantly carried on the struggle.
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