0 past simple and past participle of persecute
1 to treat someone unfairly or cruelly over a long period of time because of their race, religion, or political beliefs, or to annoy someone by refusing to leave them alone:
Those who remained behind were beleaguered and persecuted.
This tends to make quarrels spread, and many monkeys may also combine in mass redirection against one persecuted victim.
It persecuted and prosecuted dissenters and recusants who stood in its path and it proclaimed its right so to do in innumerable sermons and treatises.
They call out to all the poor and persecuted 5 people.
There is also extensive documentation of the way that individuals and groups who express any form of dissent have been persecuted through psychiatric means.
Bats are, however, still persecuted by man and in many areas of the world they are becoming endangered species.
Christians might be persecuted but, while the persecuted were blessed, the persecutors certainly were not.
Scientists who had been persecuted were publicly rehabilitated, and the graduate system was resumed.
