PERSECUTORS Synonyms: 74 Similar and Opposite Words

persecutors

noun

plural of persecutor

as in tormenters

a person who causes repeated emotional pain, distress, or annoyance to another years later his schoolyard persecutor would end up being one of his low-paid employees

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as in nuisances

one who is obnoxiously annoying on this flight my airline-appointed persecutor was a chattering nitwit who could not stop talking about himself

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Less variation within a population means greater susceptibility to pests, pathogens, disasters, and these two forces feed off of each other, with forest cover loss driving biodiversity loss, leading to poor resilience and further forest loss.

John Werner, Forbes, 8 Dec. 2024
With a decreasing winter snowpack, which leaves tree roots more vulnerable to cold, plus a new wave of forest pests that have migrated with warmer temperatures, the Northeast has unusually high levels of dead wood in its forest, experts here say.

Sophie Ungerleider, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Dec. 2024

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