I don't understand why they even try to persecute others.
I am using persecute and martyr in a sentence.
People who gather in a group to persecute any one on the daily basis is to harass.
You don't need to persecute the populace any further.
Must you persecute my people? Perhaps you would prefer to persecute someone else? Never mind the prosecution, the press will take every chance to persecute me!
It means to accuse or sentence someone.
Hitler's persecution of the Jews led to the murder of millions of innocent people.
The noun forms of the verb to persecute are persecutor, persecution, and the gerund, persecuting.
The dictator intended to persecute those who spoke out against his regime. The word persecute is a verb, and a synonym is torment.
today's strident feminists would have been persecuted as witches centuries ago
Persecute IS a verb
'persecute" is a verb, there is no 'noun form " for this word
No. Persecute and detain are not antonyms or synonyms.