To pursue with hostile intention (a person; also, in Biblical phrase, his soul or life); to go to attack, advance against (an army, country); to…

figurative. To persecute or harass with persistent attacks (a person more or less unable to escape); to worry or torment in an exasperating manner…

To harass, persecute. Obsolete.

transitive. To follow (a person) with hostility or enmity; to seek to injure; to persecute; to harass, worry, torment. Obsolete (in later use…

figurative. To persecute, harass. Obsolete.

To pursue, persecute, worry, trouble. Obsolete.

transitive. To seek out and subject (a person, group, organization, etc.) to hostility or ill-treatment, esp. on grounds of religious faith…

transitive. With vaguer meaning, in various legal formulations in which sue is collocated with verbs expressing harassment, persecution, etc. Obsolete…

intransitive. Frequently with at (also on, upon).

transitive. To persecute; = pursue, v. 1.

transitive. To pursue vindictively; to persecute. Obsolete.

Of a man's foes: To harass, persecute.

transitive. To set dragoons upon, to force or drive by the agency of dragoons; to persecute or oppress, as in the dragonnades (see dragonnade, n.).

transitive. To subject (an individual or group) to unwarranted (and now esp. unlawful) physical or psychological intimidation, usually persistently…

transitive. In extended use: to cause to die or suffer in defence of or on account of a belief, cause, etc.; (more generally in hyperbolic use) to…

transitive. To subject to a dragonnade; to dragoon.

transitive. To conduct a campaign to identify and persecute (a person or group) considered to be undesirable due to their views or activities. Cf…

Black English (chiefly U.S.). intransitive and transitive. Frequently with on. To attack physically; to persecute, intimidate; also spec., to arrest.