What part of speech is persecuting?

Persecuting can be categorized as a verb.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. persecuting is a verb, gerund of persecute (infinitive).

Inflections

Verb

What does persecuting mean?

Definitions

Verb

persecute - cause to suffer; "Jews were persecuted in the former Soviet Union"

Examples of persecuting

#   Sentence  
1. verb I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.
2. verb After more than a century of persecuting Jews as communists and claiming "communists killed Jesus," Christians are now claiming Jesus was a communist who was killed by Jewish capitalists.
3. verb Arabs persecute me.
4. verb In France, we leave alone those who start fires, but we persecute those who sound the alarm.
5. verb I do not believe progress is possible if our desire to preserve our identities gives way to an impulse to dehumanize or dominate another group. If our religion leads us to persecute those of another faith, if we jail or beat people who are gay, if our traditions lead us to prevent girls from going to school, if we discriminate on the basis of race or tribe or ethnicity, then the fragile bonds of civilization will fray.
6. verb Our commitment to human rights must be absolute, our laws fair, our natural beauty preserved; the powerful must not persecute the weak, and human dignity must be enhanced.
7. verb Arabs persecute me.
8. verb In France, we leave alone those who start fires, but we persecute those who sound the alarm.
9. verb I do not believe progress is possible if our desire to preserve our identities gives way to an impulse to dehumanize or dominate another group. If our religion leads us to persecute those of another faith, if we jail or beat people who are gay, if our traditions lead us to prevent girls from going to school, if we discriminate on the basis of race or tribe or ethnicity, then the fragile bonds of civilization will fray.
10. verb Our commitment to human rights must be absolute, our laws fair, our natural beauty preserved; the powerful must not persecute the weak, and human dignity must be enhanced.
Sentence  
verb
I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.
After more than a century of persecuting Jews as communists and claiming "communists killed Jesus," Christians are now claiming Jesus was a communist who was killed by Jewish capitalists.
Arabs persecute me.
In France, we leave alone those who start fires, but we persecute those who sound the alarm.
I do not believe progress is possible if our desire to preserve our identities gives way to an impulse to dehumanize or dominate another group. If our religion leads us to persecute those of another faith, if we jail or beat people who are gay, if our traditions lead us to prevent girls from going to school, if we discriminate on the basis of race or tribe or ethnicity, then the fragile bonds of civilization will fray.
Our commitment to human rights must be absolute, our laws fair, our natural beauty preserved; the powerful must not persecute the weak, and human dignity must be enhanced.
Arabs persecute me.
In France, we leave alone those who start fires, but we persecute those who sound the alarm.
I do not believe progress is possible if our desire to preserve our identities gives way to an impulse to dehumanize or dominate another group. If our religion leads us to persecute those of another faith, if we jail or beat people who are gay, if our traditions lead us to prevent girls from going to school, if we discriminate on the basis of race or tribe or ethnicity, then the fragile bonds of civilization will fray.
Our commitment to human rights must be absolute, our laws fair, our natural beauty preserved; the powerful must not persecute the weak, and human dignity must be enhanced.

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