Difference between Harass and Persecute

HARASS vs PERSECUTE: NOUN

To subject (another) to hostile or prejudicial remarks or actions; pressure or intimidate.
To irritate or torment persistently.
To make repeated attacks or raids on (an enemy, for example).
To fatigue; to tire with repeated and exhausting efforts; esp., to weary by importunity, teasing, or fretting; to cause to endure excessive burdens or anxieties; -- sometimes followed by out.

To oppress or harass with ill-treatment, especially because of race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or beliefs.
To annoy persistently; bother.
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.

To fatigue or tire out, as with annoying labor, care, importunity, enforced watchfulness, misfortune, etc.; distress by perplexity; wear out, as with toil.
Milit.: To annoy by repeated attacks; keep constantly on the defensive.
To lay waste or desolate; raid.
To rub or scrape.
Synonyms Distress, etc. (see afflict); to jade, disturb, exhaust, fag. See trouble.

In a weakened sense, to harass or pursue with persistent attentions, solicitations, or other importunities; vex or annoy.
To pursue with harassing or oppressive treatment; harass or afflict with repeated acts of cruelty or annoyance; injure or afflict persistently; specifically, to afflict, harass, or punish on account of opinions, as for adherence to a particular creed or system of religious principles, or to a mode of worship.
1. To pursue; follow close after.

Beset, Bug, Hassle, Plague, Beleaguer, Harry, Badger, Chivvy, Provoke, Tease, Heckle, Molest, Oppress, Pester, Persecute

Imprison, Demonize, Vilify, Dog, Follow, Continue, Monitor, Haunt, Pursue, Bully, Persecution, Prosecute, Intimidate, Harass, Oppress

Beset, Bug, Hassle, Plague, Beleaguer, Harry, Badger, Chivvy, Provoke, Tease, Heckle, Molest, Oppress, Pester, Persecute

Imprison, Demonize, Vilify, Dog, Follow, Continue, Monitor, Haunt, Pursue, Bully, Persecution, Prosecute, Intimidate, Harass, Oppress

Users will not harass or bully another person.
What about men who are prone to harass?
Attempting to libel, slander, or harass other users.
Not harass others physically, verbally, psychologically, or sexually.
They buy out debts and the harass people.
Debt collectors are not allowed to harass you.
I have seen bicyclist harass motorist, more than I have seen motorist harass bicyclist.
It is against the law for a landlord to harass a tenant, and for a tenant to harass a landlord.
File to harass or failure to harass or erie county sheriff wanted information to read more.
The Tenant must not verbally harass or harass by email any other resident or staffperson.

Fut to death for osiers belief; persecute, tortfurc; disfigure, mutilate.
Gentiles, in turn, are not to persecute the Jews excessively.
It is not my aim to persecute Bo Fowler.
Persecute cars and enslave their owners with punishing taxation.
Enlightenment in their own right for those persecute!
What is it that you hate and persecute?
The coming Antichrist will also destroy and persecute.
When will you judge those who persecute me?
Must you also persecute me, like God does?
Jesus made it clear to Paul that to persecute believers is to persecute Jesus himself, and therefore, when a believer suffers, Jesus suffers too.