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persecutingverbpresent participle of persecute to cause persistent suffering topeople who were persecuted simply for practicing their religious faith afflicting, agonizing, anguishing, bedeviling, besetting, besieging, cursing, excruciating, harrowing, plaguing, racking, tormenting, torturing assailing, attackingbadgering, dogging, hounding, pursuing, ridingaggravating, agitating, annoying, bothering, bugging, chafing, distressing, disturbing, exasperating, galling, getting, grating, griping, hagriding, harassing, harrying, irking, irritating, molesting, nettling, peeving, pestering, piquing, putting out, rasping, riling, vexingdiscomforting, discomposing, disquieting, flustering, grieving, perturbing, straining, stressing, troubling, trying, upsetting, worryingcrushing, oppressing, overpowering, overwhelming, smiting, striking, tyrannizing, victimizinghurting, paining, panging, pricking, smarting, stabbing, stinging, wringingmartyring abetting, aiding, assisting, helpingdelivering, releasing, relieving, reprievingcomforting, consoling, contenting, quieting, solacing, soothing, succoring to disturb the peace of mind of (someone) especially by repeated disagreeable actsshe likes to persecute her sister with pointless, annoying questions at very inopportune times aggravating, annoying, bothering, bugging, burning (up), chafing, eating, exasperating, frosting, galling, getting, grating, griping, hacking (off), irking, irritating, itching, narking(British), nettling, peeving, piquing, putting out, rasping, riling, ruffling, spiting, vexing hassling, hecklingnagginginflaming(also enflaming), provoking, rousingbadgering, baiting, bullyragging(also ballyragging), deviling(or devilling), hagriding, harassing, harrying, pestering, plaguing, teasingangering, antagonizing, enraging, incensing, infuriating, maddening, rankling, roilingagitating, discomforting, discomposing, disquieting, distressing, exercising, freaking (out), fretting, perturbing, undoing, unhinging, unsettling, upsetting, worryingaffronting, insulting, miffing, offending, outraging getting one's goat, getting on one's nerves, getting to, rubbing the wrong way, setting one's teeth on edge, sticking in one's craw, wearing on appeasing, conciliating, mollifying, obliging, pacifying, placating, propitiatingdelighting, gladdening, gratifying, pleasing, satisfyingassuring, cheering, comforting, consoling, contenting, quieting, reassuring, solacing, soothing |