Word Meanings - PERSECUTE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

pursue, prosecute; per + sequi to follow, pursue. See Per-, and 1. To pursue in a manner to injure, grieve, or afflict; to beset with cruelty or malignity; to harass; especially, to afflict, harass, punish, or put to death, for adherence

Additional info about word: PERSECUTE

pursue, prosecute; per + sequi to follow, pursue. See Per-, and 1. To pursue in a manner to injure, grieve, or afflict; to beset with cruelty or malignity; to harass; especially, to afflict, harass, punish, or put to death, for adherence to a particular religious creed or mode of worship. Do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you. Matt. v. 44. 2. To harass with importunity; to pursue with persistent solicitations; to annoy. Johnson. Syn. -- To oppress; harass; distress; worry; annoy.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PERSECUTE)

• Oppress
• Burden
• grind
• weigh down
• persecute
• aggrieve
• maltreat
• abuse
• overbear
• constrain

Related words: (words related to PERSECUTE)

• GRINDSTONE
  A flat, circular stone, revolving on an axle, for grinding or sharpening tools, or shaping or smoothing objects. To hold, pat, or bring one's nose to the grindstone, to oppress one; to keep one in a condition of servitude. They might be ashamed,
• GRINDLE STONE
  A grindstone.
• GRINDLET
  A small drain.
• BURDENER
  One who loads; a oppressor.
• GRINDINGLY
  In a grinding manner.
• CONSTRAINTIVE
  Constraining; compulsory. "Any constraintive vow." R. Carew.
• MALTREATMENT
  Ill treatment; ill usage; abuse.
• WEIGHTINESS
  The quality or state of being weighty; weight; force; importance; impressiveness.
• WEIGHTILY
  In a weighty manner.
• WEIGHMASTER
  One whose business it is to weigh ore, hay, merchandise, etc.; one licensed as a public weigher.
• OPPRESSION
  1. The act of oppressing, or state of being oppressed. 2. That which oppresses; a hardship or injustice; cruelty; severity; tyranny. "The multitude of oppressions." Job xxxv. 9. 3. A sense of heaviness or obstruction in the body or mind;
• OPPRESSOR
  One who oppresses; one who imposes unjust burdens on others; one who harasses others with unjust laws or unreasonable severity. The orphan pines while the oppressor feeds. Shak. To relieve the oppressed and to punish the oppressor. Swift.
• GRINDERY
  Leather workers' materials. Grindery warehouse, a shop where leather workers' materials and tools are kept on sale.
• WEIGHER
  One who weighs; specifically, an officer whose duty it is to weigh commodities.
• GRINDELIA
  The dried stems and leaves of tarweed , used as a remedy in asthma and bronchitis.
• GRINDING
  from Grind. Grinding frame, an English name for a cotton spinning machine. -- Grinding mill. A mill for grinding grain. A lapidary's lathe.
• CONSTRAINED
  Marked by constraint; not free; not voluntary; embarrassed; as, a constrained manner; a constrained tone.
• WEIGH-HOUSE
  A building at or within which goods, and the like, are weighed.
• OPPRESSURE
  Oppression.
• OVERBEAR
  1. To bear down or carry down, as by excess of weight, power, force, etc.; to overcome; to suppress. The point of reputation, when the news first came of the battle lost, did overbear the reason of war. Bacon. Overborne with weight the Cyprians
• COUNTER WEIGHT
  A counterpoise.
• WELTERWEIGHT
  1. A weight of 28 pounds (one of 40 pounds is called a heavy welterweight) sometimes imposed in addition to weight for age, chiefly in steeplechases and hurdle races. 2. A boxer or wrestler whose weight is intermediate between that
• AWEIGH
  Just drawn out of the ground, and hanging perpendicularly; atrip; -- said of the anchor. Totten.
• UNWEIGHING
  Not weighing or pondering; inconsiderate. Shak.
• OVERBURDEN
  To load with too great weight or too much care, etc. Sir P. Sidney.
• UNBURDEN
  1. To relieve from a burden. 2. To throw off, as a burden; to unload.