Crossword-Solution: PERSECUTE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Persecute | v. t. | 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. |
| Persecute | v. t. | To harass with importunity; to pursue with persistent solicitations; to annoy. |
We have 49 clues for the answer “PERSECUTE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Turn into a martyr, perhaps | 1 answer |
| Pursue continually | 1 answer |
| Persistently harass | 1 answer |
| PURSUE heretic with enmity and injury | 1 answer |
| Not leave be | 1 answer |
| Hound, say | 1 answer |
| Never allow a moment of peace | 1 answer |
| ACQUIT (ant.) | 2 answers |
| harrass | 3 answers |
| put about | 17 answers |
| dragoon | 18 answers |
| MAKE bad use of | 19 answers |
| Victimise | 26 answers |
| Rub the wrong way | 29 answers |
| excruciate | 29 answers |
| Butt (in) | 30 answers |
| Punish | 32 answers |
| MAKE insane | 36 answers |
| Aggrieve | 38 answers |
| Abrade | 38 answers |
| Peeve | 39 answers |
| Condemn | 41 answers |
| Nettle | 41 answers |
| oppress | 45 answers |
| wreak | 46 answers |
| Perturb | 47 answers |
| Irk | 48 answers |
| smother | 48 answers |
| Intrude (on) | 49 answers |
| Make Angry | 49 answers |
| Taunt | 50 answers |
| Hector | 51 answers |
| Intimidate | 53 answers |
| Trample | 54 answers |
| Mis-behave | 54 answers |
| Afflict | 54 answers |
| Perplex | 56 answers |
| Prod | 57 answers |
| Pique | 58 answers |
| Harry | 59 answers |
| BADGER ___ | 60 answers |
| Pester | 60 answers |
| Hound | 64 answers |
| Nag | 65 answers |
| Pain | 67 answers |
| Pursue | 69 answers |
| Bait | 71 answers |
| Torment | 81 answers |
| Put (out) | 93 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
RAEA
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with PERSECUTE (5)
She flewed at him like a cat—never such a tom-boy as she is—of course I speak with closed doors?” “You do—you do, Henery.” “She flewed at him, and, to cut a long story short, he owned to having carried off five sack altogether, upon her promising not to persecute him.
Upon the slightest and most unreasonable pretences, as well as upon accusations the most absurd and groundless, their persons and property were exposed to every turn of popular fury; for Norman, Saxon, Dane, and Briton, however adverse these races were to each other, contended which should look with greatest detestation upon a people, whom it was accounted a point of religion to hate, to revile, to despise, to plunder, and to persecute.
The king's daughter, knowing that he was a hard man who had never hesitated to crush, kill, or otherwise persecute anyone who offended him in the slightest, realized that she could not tell the truth or say simply that the child had been found during one of the princess' walks, because the king would then send it to a harsh life in an orphanage--and that would be if she found him in a good mood.
Since that time the priest had decided to pay special attention to Smokovnikov’s son; and, finding him as indifferent to religious matters as his father was, he began to persecute him, and even brought about his failure in examinations.
Peter had to reveal to him that the Messiah (in whom, as one that was to come, he had hitherto believed) now had come, lest his faith concerning the coming Messiah hold him captive among the hardened and unbelieving Jews, but know that he was now to be saved by the present Messiah, and must not, with the [rabble of the] Jews deny nor persecute Him.
Quotes with PERSECUTE (3)
All the stories I would like to write persecute me. When I am in my chamber, it seems as if they are all around me, like little devils, and while one tugs at my ear, another tweaks my nose, and each says to me, 'Sir, write me, I am beautiful.
Until every soul is freely permitted to investigate every book, and creed, and dogma for itself, the world cannot be free. Mankind will be enslaved until there is mental grandeur enough to allow each man to have his thought and say. This earth will be a paradise when men can, upon all these questions differ, and yet grasp each other's hands as friends. It is amazing to me that a difference of opinion upon subjects that we know nothing with certainty about, should make us hate…
The thing that really is trying to tyrannize through government is Science. The thing that really does use the secular arm is Science. And the creed that really is levying tithes and capturing schools, the creed that really is enforced by fine and imprisonment, the creed that really is proclaimed not in sermons but in statues, and spread not by pilgrims but by policemen — that creed is the great but disputed system of thought which began with Evolution and has ended in Eugeni…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: New Yorker, NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (2001–2022).