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persecute
verb as in wrong, torment
Example Sentences
Instead, she lives in a trailer on the homestead, where she feels persecuted by the blazing sun that her tree canopy used to shield her from.
"Let us protect religious liberty," he told the UN, "including for the most persecuted religion on the planet today – it's called Christianity."
My grandparents knew first hand what it was to be persecuted for who you were and what you thought or said.
"The answer, we know from the Gospel, is love and always love. Love for our enemies, and love for those who persecute us."
The ADF emerged in Uganda in the 1990s, accusing the government there of persecuting Muslims.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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