What is another word for persecuting ?

getting someone's dander up

To be irritating or upsetting, typically with repeated or unpleasant acts

bedeviling^US

bedevilling^UK

rubbing up the wrong way

driving to distraction

getting someone's goat

getting under your skin

getting up your nose

giving someone grief

giving someone the hump

hacking off

making your blood boil

driving round the bend

driving round the twist

getting your back up

hacking you off

heating up

making someone see red

getting on your nerves

giving someone the pip

putting your back up

hitting where one lives

agonizing^US

agonising^UK

brutalizing^US

rubbing the wrong way

brutalising^UK

getting on one's nerves

breathing down someone's neck

terrorizing^US

discriminating against

terrorising^UK

doing over

bending someone's ear

roughing up

causing agony to

putting someone's nose out of joint

beating up

making somebody's hackles rise

tantalizing^US

tantalising^UK

setting one's teeth on edge

rubbing you up the wrong way

carping at

inflicting anguish on

ruffling one's feathers

messing up

making things hot for someone

sticking in one's craw

driving you up the wall

getting your dander up

getting up someone's nose

imposing on

jarring

showing antagonism to

disapproving of

feeling ill will towards

showing ill will towards

bearing a grudge towards

getting a rise out of

rattling someone's cage

trying the patience of

sending into a rage

getting your hackles up

punishing repeatedly and unfairly

labouring^UK

laboring^US

upsetting the applecart

guying

making an enemy of somebody

getting on the wrong side of

bringing pressure to bear on

searching high heaven

getting across someone

demonizing^US

demonising^UK

having your knife into

playing the heavy with

riding roughshod over

jumping on one's case

putting the squeeze on

getting in the hair of

razzing

taking the mickey

getting on the nerves of

taking the piss out of

dishonoring^US

doing an injustice to

giving no quarter

stepping on the toes of

putting someone off their stroke

causing someone to lose their composure

criticizing^US

keeping complaining to

criticising^UK

busting someone's balls

taking it out on

moaning at

making it hot for someone

hunting

exiling

sticking the knife into

expelling

dragooning

getting the knife into

giving someone the works

inflicting pain on

working over

inflicting suffering on

satirizing^US

making someone fed up

having on

keying up

hurting somebody's feelings

causing discomfort to

satirising^UK

running up the wrong way

giving someone hell

messing

niggling at

pushing someon's buttons

arousing hostility in

jeering

caviling^US

cavilling^UK

breaking the heart of

causing resentment to

belabouring^UK

playing cat and mouse

putting through wringer

rubbing salt in wound

causing someone distress

causing pain

tiring out

making severe demands on

belaboring^US

taking the heart out of

causing to feel mental strain

causing to feel emotional strain

pulling someone's leg

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“Last week we witnessed two fine examples of the extent to which anti-smoking zealots will go in order to hound and persecute smokers.”

Verb

Present participle for to cause anguish or distress to

tormenting

torturing

agonising^UK

agonizing^US

anguishing

bedeviling^US

bedevilling^UK

discriminating against

inflicting pain on

inflicting suffering on

picking on

“They have been persecuted for their beliefs.”

Verb

Present participle for to put down or control by cruelty or force

oppressing

subjugating

ruling with a rod of iron

riding roughshod over

ruling with an iron hand

bringing someone to their knees

terrorizing^US

terrorising^UK

domineering over

pushing around

keeping under thumb

having someone under your thumb

brutalizing^US

brutalising^UK

gaining ascendancy over

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Verb

Present participle for to bully or threaten, especially by causing others to feel frightened

terrorising^UK

terrorizing^US

using strong-arm tactics on

twisting someone's arm

scaring off

scaring the bejesus out of

riding roughshod over

lording it over

putting the screws on

putting through the wringer

putting the chill on

holding a gun to one's head

putting the frighteners on

making things hot for someone

making it hot for someone

ruling with a rod of iron

ruling with an iron hand

throwing your weight around

putting the squeeze on

having someone do something

bringing pressure to bear on

ordering

demanding

blackmailing

tightening the screws on

bringing force to bear on

putting the screws to

putting under an obligation

exerting influence on

bringing pressure to bear upon

inducing

prevailing upon

effecting

turning the screws on

having

tightening the screw on

putting up to

turning the screw on

imposing on

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Verb

Present participle for to mistreat or do an injustice to

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