Persecution

Noun

 * 1) The act of persecuting.
 * 2) A program or campaign to subjugate or eliminate a specific group of people, often based on race, religion, sexuality, or social beliefs.

Verbs for Persecution
bewail—; criticize—; fear—; inflict—; in¬tensify—; intimidate by—; resist—; single out for—; subject to—; suffer—; temper—; —aggrieves; —dispirits; —grinds; —harasses; —haunts; —pains; —offends; —oppresses; —outrages; —tramples; —weighs.

Thesaurus
McCarthyism, abuse, affliction, aggravation, annoyance, bad news, bedevilment, bore, bother, botheration, bothersomeness, bullying, clawing, crashing bore, cruciation, crucifixion, devilment, difficulty, dogging, downer, drag, exasperation, harassing, harassment, harrying, headache, hectoring, hell, hell upon earth, holocaust, horror, hounding, ill-treatment, irritation, laceration, lancination, maltreatment, martyrdom, molestation, nightmare, nuisance, oppression, outrage, passion, pest, problem, punishment, purgatory, rack, red-baiting, subjugation, suppression, torment, tormenting, torture, trial, trouble, tyranny, vexation, vexatiousness, victimization, witch-hunt, witch-hunting, worriment, worry

Etymology
From persecutio: <  persequor: <.

Translations

 * Armenian:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: persekutado
 * Finnish: vainoaminen


 * French: persécution
 * Kurdish:
 * Spanish: persecución


 * Armenian:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:


 * French: persécution
 * Hebrew: רדיפה