0 present 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: --
Another reason why people frequent clubs is that they avoid the sometimes persecuting attentions of landlords.
Let us clear up our minds and cease from persecuting this unfortunate and despised race.
Asylum seekers may well have escaped from a persecuting or life-threatening country only by concealing or embellishing the bare truth of their situation.
They thought, and often quite correctly, that the persons they were persecuting were a small minority, ignorant and defiled by many faults and infirmities.
It is no good persecuting those people: they must be offered the chance of a legitimate life.
The only evidence given came from those persecuting and prosecuting him.
They can see a difference between that and persecuting minorities, banning dissent or unpopular opinions and undermining our traditional rights and freedoms.
It makes them feel that the people who are persecuting them are their immediate enemies.
