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Synonyms and Antonyms of persecuting
- people who were persecuted simply for practicing their religious faith
badgering, dogging, hounding, pursuing, riding
aggravating, 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, vexing
discomforting, discomposing, disquieting, flustering, grieving, perturbing, straining, stressing, troubling, trying, upsetting, worrying
crushing, oppressing, overpowering, overwhelming, smiting, striking, tyrannizing, victimizing
hurting, paining, panging, pricking, smarting, stabbing, stinging, wringing
- she 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
inflaming (also enflaming), provoking, rousing
badgering, baiting, bullyragging (also ballyragging), deviling (or devilling), hagriding, harassing, harrying, pestering, plaguing, teasing
angering, antagonizing, enraging, incensing, infuriating, maddening, rankling, roiling
agitating, discomforting, discomposing, disquieting, distressing, exercising, freaking (out), fretting, perturbing, undoing, unhinging, unsettling, upsetting, worrying
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