PERSECUTE
\pˈɜːsɪkjˌuːt], \pˈɜːsɪkjˌuːt], \p_ˈɜː_s_ɪ_k_j_ˌuː_t]\
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To pursue in a manner to injure, grieve, or afflict; to beset with cruelty or malignity; to harass; especially, to afflict, harass, punish, or put to death, for adherence to a particular religious creed or mode of worship.
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To harass with importunity; to pursue with persistent solicitations; to annoy.
By Oddity Software
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To pursue in a manner to injure, grieve, or afflict; to beset with cruelty or malignity; to harass; especially, to afflict, harass, punish, or put to death, for adherence to a particular religious creed or mode of worship.
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To harass with importunity; to pursue with persistent solicitations; to annoy.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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basidiomycota
- comprises fungi bearing the spores on basidium: Gasteromycetes (puffballs); Tiliomycetes (comprising orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts)); Hymenomycetes (mushrooms; toadstools; agarics; bracket fungi); in some classification systems considered a division of kingdom comprises fungi bearing spores on a basidium; includes Gasteromycetes (puffballs) Tiliomycetes comprising the orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts) Hymenomycetes (mushrooms, toadstools, agarics bracket fungi).