WordNet: persecution

the act of persecuting (especially on the basis of race or religion)

• domain: topic faith, religion, religious belief

• hypernym abuse, ill-treatment, ill-usage, maltreatment

• hyponym oppression, subjugation

• hyponym pogrom

• hyponym rendition

• hyponym torture, torturing

persecution

• (englanti) persecute (derivationally related)
• (suomi) vainoaminen (synonyymi)

• (suomi) vaino (synonyymi)