Illustration: Outside a neighborhood meeting room, several peaceful members of a fictional religious fellowship wear the same simple knotted pendant. Hostile neighbors block their entrance with a barrier while another throws their small devotional objects into the street.

JLPT N1suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

迫はく害がい

hakugai

to persecute

Example sentences

ローマ人じんはキリスト教徒きょうとを迫害はくがいした。
The Romans persecuted Christians.
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彼かれは人々ひとびとを宗教的しゅうきょうてきに迫害はくがいした。
He persecuted people for their religion.
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中浦神父なかうらしんぷは九州きゅうしゅうを回まわりながら、迫害はくがいに苦くるしむキリシタンたちを慰なぐさめていた。
Father Nakaura went around the Kyushu region, consoling Christians who were suffering from persecution.
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Kanji in 迫害

迫urge; forceOnハクKunせまる
害harm; injuryOnガイ

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