To persecute or harass with meaningless, difficult, or humiliating tasks.
52was there ever a prophet your fathers did not persecute?
No organization or individual shall suppress, retaliate against or persecute a complainant.
For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded.
A certain sin may persecute us until our last breath, humiliate us in the eyes of others, escape our understanding, and fill our eyes with tears.
God blesses you when people mock you and persecute you and lie about you and say all sorts of evil things against you because you are my followers. 12 be happy about it!
persecute a person with repeated threats
Why do you persecute me as God, and glut yourselves with my flesh?
Once the affair become public, he is persecute by the press.
Blessed are you when people revile you and persecute you and say all manner of evil against you falsely for my sake.
persecute sB. with questions
that her neighbours were combining to slander her and persecute her,
In frence we leave unmolested those who set fire to the house, and persecute those who sound the alarm.
Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse.
I did not want to persecute this female lawyer——I wanted to send her and the judges to jail.
They persecute those who do not conform to their ideas.
The sermon is a very moving exhortation; and it gives you one first-rate tip, which is, to do good to those who despitefully use you and persecute you.
Investigation made in order to persecute people who hold unorthodox or unpopular views
49Because of this, God in his wisdom said, 'I will send them prophets and apostles, some of whom they will kill and others they will persecute.'
