Persecute is valid Scrabble Word

Is persecute a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is persecute valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

9 letters word
13 points in Scrabble
16 points in WWF

Definitions for PERSECUTE in dictionary:

VERB:

to harass, afflict, hunt down, or put to death, esp. for religious or political opinions
subject (someone) to hostility and ill-treatment, especially because of their race or political or religious beliefs
harass or annoy (someone) persistently
treat cruelly because of race, religion, etc
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.
To harass with importunity; to pursue with persistent solicitations; to annoy.

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to harass or punish in a manner designed to injure, grieve, or afflict; to cause to suffer because of belief

Words related to PERSECUTE

persecuted15 persecutes14 persecuting16

Words that contain PERSECUTE

persecuted15 persecutee14 persecutes14 persecutees15 unpersecuted17

How to use PERSECUTE in a sentence

I saw him persecute and harass her, even in the subterranean chambers, I saw him drive her mad with terror and suffering, like a huge bat pursuing a white dove.
When they persecute you in one city, fly into another.
And therefore the jewes did persecute Iesus, and sought the means to slay him, because he had done these things on the saboth day.
Was it ended, then? She would persecute him no more.
It was a mistake, sir, to suppose that she merely wished to persecute me.
Why then should you persecute us? Give us our lives.
If you follow me, or persecute me in any way, I will appeal to the police for protection as Mrs.
Philip ceased to persecute her she would still be hungry and tormented.
Seeing that this would not be conceded, he commenced to persecute Christians openly and secretly.
In 1896 this man tried to join the union but they refused to have him, though at the same time they continued to persecute him so that he could not obtain work anywhere.

People can like and protect those who are subservient to them, and persecute them when they are not.
The beautiful laws and substances of the world persecute and whip the traitor.
The mob for their part agreed not to persecute the Saints while this was being done.
The Government sent Secret Service men down to watch him and persecute him.
A belief prevailed, that if one killed a snake, the whole race to which it belonged would persecute the cruel individual.
Appeal to the government seems useless, for it is from the government that their chief oppressor gets his power to persecute.
To inflict persecution upon One is to persecute the Others.
He was powerless to annoy or persecute her, and she could not escape the conviction that he would have attempted both had he lived.
Sheats that he will prosecute and persecute this Orange Park School out of existence.
As for the poor masters of arts, he did persecute them above all others.
Why did the early settlers of New England persecute the Quakers? 6.
He is so great of stature and so uncouth that the children persecute him, and some day he may do one of them an injury.
There was something visible to persecute, was there not? Paul wrote to the church at Corinth.
After this he began to persecute those who were called Gentiles, torturing their persons and plundering their property.
If there were not conveniences of sending, I should persecute you strangely.
But for my own part, I heartily wish, that there may be no occasion for Christians to persecute each other.
She could imagine how that the man, believing her good name in his power, and at his mercy, would not cease to torment and persecute her.
Consequently his pride revolted at the idea of thrusting himself where he was not wanted, and his love forbade him to persecute the woman he worshipped.
The question is whether Florine will consent to appear to persecute Matifat.
And when they shall persecute you in this city, flee into another.

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