Definition of "persecuted" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of persecute. (verb)

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• "The descendants of these animals, the feral American horses known as mustangs, were being killed for pet food as recently as the 1960s and, despite the 1971 Free Roaming Wild Horse and Burro Act, remain persecuted today."
• "My opinion is that they will continue that expenditure, and provide a home for those Jews in persecuted lands who wish to go back."
• "The irritated Moslemin persecuted the brethren of the successful rebel, and this impolicy precipitated their flight."