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persecuted

/pur-si-kyoo-tid/US // ˈpɜr sɪˌkyu tɪd //

被迫害,被迫害的,受迫害的,受到迫害的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : persistently harassed or oppressed, especially because of religious or political beliefs, ethnic or racial origin, gender identity, or sexual orientation:Having been raised in a frequently persecuted faith, the idea of any state religion makes me very nervous.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbwrong, torment

Examples

  • The Castro regime continues to arbitrarily arrest, beat-up, and persecute all those who dare to speak their minds.

  • He was persecuted by government authorities for his activism, he said.

  • He’s been persecuting people of color, and those words aren’t just harmless.

  • It still results in tangible harm and is a real threat to people who are persecuted.

  • Last year the New York Times reported authorities in Xinjiang used “free health checks” as a means to compile a genetic database of the region’s persecuted Uighur populace.

  • Now the church consists of people who only talk about how ‘we were persecuted’—even though they never were.

  • Of gays being persecuted viciously in countries like Russia and Iran?

  • The basic premise that Christians should expect to suffer and be persecuted is not an invention of Rev. Sproul.

  • His memory is encyclopedic--a curse for a man who feels persecuted.

  • Madison knew directly how colonial-era Anglicans had persecuted Baptists.

  • That struck the people in wrath with an incurable wound, that brought nations under in fury, that persecuted in a cruel manner.

  • The prophet is persecuted: he denounces captivity to his persecutors, and bemoans himself.

  • Let us suppose that any one who denied the old crude errors of astrology was persecuted as a heretic.

  • In that country, about the year 1642, many poor old women were persecuted to death.

  • The persecuted minister obtained both a complete acquittal, and a signal revenge.