Synonyms of persecuting

persecuting

verb

present participle of persecute

1

as in plaguing

to cause persistent suffering to

people who were persecuted simply for practicing their religious faith

Synonyms & Similar Words

• plaguing
• afflicting
• torturing
• attacking
• besieging
• tormenting
• cursing
• bothering
• besetting
• bedeviling
• excruciating
• agonizing
• harrowing
• stinging
• anguishing
• troubling
• racking
• pursuing
• harassing
• oppressing
• assailing
• hounding
• striking
• disturbing
• badgering
• harrying
• molesting
• hurting
• aggravating
• victimizing
• riding
• trying
• pestering
• dogging
• agitating
• annoying
• worrying
• irritating
• tyrannizing
• distressing
• riling
• grieving
• overwhelming
• upsetting
• bugging
• nettling
• exasperating
• smiting
• stabbing
• irking
• stressing
• griping
• perturbing
• vexing
• grating
• galling
• crushing
• discomforting
• chafing
• disquieting
• overpowering
• piquing
• pricking
• smarting
• putting out
• rasping
• straining
• getting
• paining
• flustering
• peeving
• martyring
• discomposing
• wringing
• hagriding
• panging

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• assisting
• helping
• aiding
• abetting
• relieving
• delivering
• releasing
• comforting
• consoling
• contenting
• quieting
• soothing
• reprieving
• succoring
• solacing

2

as in bothering

to disturb the peace of mind of (someone) especially by repeated disagreeable acts

she likes to persecute her sister with pointless, annoying questions at very inopportune times

Synonyms & Similar Words

• bothering
• annoying
• bugging
• irritating
• getting
• aggravating
• eating
• spiting
• angering
• riling
• exasperating
• nettling
• infuriating
• itching
• grating
• irking
• worrying
• griping
• burning (up)
• insulting
• galling
• ruffling
• vexing
• teasing
• harassing
• getting to
• piquing
• provoking
• narking
• plaguing
• chafing
• wearing on
• hacking (off)
• frosting
• rasping
• putting out
• peeving
• offending
• enraging
• hassling
• upsetting
• rubbing the wrong way
• sticking in one's craw
• heckling
• antagonizing
• harrying
• getting on one's nerves
• badgering
• getting one's goat
• inflaming
• nagging
• setting one's teeth on edge
• pestering
• agitating
• baiting
• enflaming
• outraging
• rousing
• incensing
• unsettling
• distressing
• exercising
• affronting
• rankling
• maddening
• perturbing
• deviling
• undoing
• discomforting
• roiling
• devilling
• disquieting
• bullyragging
• ballyragging
• unhinging
• fretting
• hagriding
• discomposing
• freaking (out)
• miffing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• appeasing
• obliging
• placating
• conciliating
• pacifying
• gratifying
• pleasing
• satisfying
• propitiating
• delighting
• mollifying
• assuring
• cheering
• comforting
• reassuring
• consoling
• soothing
• quieting
• contenting
• gladdening
• solacing