persecutornoun [ C ]
uk/ˈpɜː.sɪ.kjuː.tər/us/ˈpɝː.sə.kjuː.t̬ɚ/someone who treats a particular group of people cruelly:
The country's native people rose up against their persecutors.
The clergy were the main persecutors of witches in the Middle Ages.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Treating people or animals badly
- a raw deal idiom
- at the hands of sb idiom
- batten
- batten on sb
- be heavy on sb idiom
- bleed
- grind
- jerk
- jerk sb around
- knife
- knock
- knock sb around
- put sb through sth
- shit on sb
- shortchange
- shove
- shove sb around
- smite
- torment
- walk all over sb idiom
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