--- title: P — The English dictionary with trees and pragmatics · page 21 description: The 1498 words of the English dictionary under P, every meaning for a pupil and every example with its dependency tree and pragmatics. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/P/page/21/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/) / [English dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/) / P # P — The English dictionary · page 21 [A](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/A/) · [B](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/B/) · [C](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/C/) · [D](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/D/) · 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*Everyday, meaning 1:* Perishable food goes bad or rotten quickly, like milk, meat and fruit.[↗](../../perishable/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (noun, plural) Perishables are foods or goods that go off quickly.[↗](../../perishable/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* Something that can decay or die is perishable, and does not last for ever, like living bodies.[↗](../../perishable/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Milk is perishable, so keep it in the fridge.[↗](../../perishable/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Perishable food needs a cool place.[↗](../../perishable/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Tinned beans are not perishable.[↗](../../perishable/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The lorry carried perishable goods.[↗](../../perishable/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Put the perishables in the cool bag.[↗](../../perishable/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Strawberries are very perishable.[↗](../../perishable/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Throw away perishable food after its use-by date.[↗](../../perishable/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **periwinkle** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A periwinkle is a small sea snail with a spiral shell, found on rocks at the seashore.[↗](../../periwinkle/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A periwinkle is also a low garden plant with blue or purple flowers.[↗](../../periwinkle/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* Periwinkle is a soft blue-purple colour.[↗](../../periwinkle/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* We found periwinkles in the rock pool.[↗](../../periwinkle/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · A periwinkle clings to the rock when the tide goes out.[↗](../../periwinkle/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The periwinkle flowers were blue.[↗](../../periwinkle/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · My new jumper is periwinkle blue.[↗](../../periwinkle/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Seagulls sometimes eat periwinkles.[↗](../../periwinkle/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Periwinkles eat tiny plants on the rocks.[↗](../../periwinkle/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Some people cook and eat periwinkles, called winkles.[↗](../../periwinkle/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · Dark as were his thoughts his blue eyes were as soft as the periwinkle.[↗](../../periwinkle/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") **perjury** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* (law) Perjury is the crime of telling a lie in court after promising to tell the truth.[↗](../../perjury/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* It can also mean breaking a solemn promise.[↗](../../perjury/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Lying in court is called perjury.[↗](../../perjury/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The witness was charged with perjury.[↗](../../perjury/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Perjury can be punished with prison.[↗](../../perjury/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Before speaking, witnesses swear to tell the truth.[↗](../../perjury/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · If you commit perjury, the trial may be unfair.[↗](../../perjury/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The judge warned him about perjury.[↗](../../perjury/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **perky** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Cheerful, lively and full of energy.[↗](../../perky/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Standing up straight and bright: «perky ears».[↗](../../perky/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* You look very perky this morning\![↗](../../perky/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The puppy had perky ears.[↗](../../perky/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · A perky robin hopped across the lawn.[↗](../../perky/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · After a nap Grandma felt perky again.[↗](../../perky/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The flowers looked perky after the rain.[↗](../../perky/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · She gave a perky little wave.[↗](../../perky/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **permafrost** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Ground that stays frozen all year round for at least two years in a row, found in very cold places like the Arctic, Siberia, Alaska and northern Canada.[↗](../../permafrost/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* In northern Canada, the ground under the moss is permafrost.[↗](../../permafrost/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Scientists found a baby mammoth frozen in the permafrost.[↗](../../permafrost/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Houses in Siberia are built on stilts above the permafrost.[↗](../../permafrost/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · As the climate warms, the permafrost is thawing.[↗](../../permafrost/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Trees cannot grow deep roots in permafrost.[↗](../../permafrost/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Thawing permafrost lets out greenhouse gases.[↗](../../permafrost/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **permanent** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Lasting for ever or for a very long time; not changing: «a permanent marker».[↗](../../permanent/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (of a job or home) Lasting with no planned end: «a permanent job».[↗](../../permanent/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Don't use a permanent marker on the whiteboard\![↗](../../permanent/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Burning paper is a permanent change.[↗](../../permanent/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Your adult teeth are permanent, so look after them.[↗](../../permanent/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The kitten found a permanent home.[↗](../../permanent/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The ink stain looks permanent.[↗](../../permanent/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Is the new teacher permanent or just for this term?[↗](../../permanent/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · And both crows bowed and asked for a permanent appointment, for they thought of their old age.[↗](../../permanent/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **permanently** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* For ever, or for a very long time, without changing or ending.[↗](../../permanently/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* All the time; always (permanently tired — informal exaggeration).[↗](../../permanently/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The shop has closed permanently.[↗](../../permanently/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Loud noise can permanently damage your hearing.[↗](../../permanently/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · They moved to Canada permanently.[↗](../../permanently/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Never look at the Sun — it can permanently hurt your eyes.[↗](../../permanently/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Burning paper changes it permanently.[↗](../../permanently/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · (informal) My brother is permanently hungry.[↗](../../permanently/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · After the miraculous passage of the Argo, the Symplegades became permanently united, and attached to the bottom of the sea.[↗](../../permanently/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **permeate** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* To spread through every part of something.[↗](../../permeate/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *e.g.* "The smell of bread permeated the house."[↗](../../permeate/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (science) To pass through a material or a membrane.[↗](../../permeate/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *e.g.* "Water permeates the soil."[↗](../../permeate/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The smell of baking permeated the whole street.[↗](../../permeate/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Rainwater permeates the sandy soil quickly.[↗](../../permeate/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · A feeling of excitement permeated the school before the holidays.[↗](../../permeate/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Damp permeated the walls of the old house.[↗](../../permeate/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Music permeated every corner of the hall.[↗](../../permeate/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Ink permeated the paper towel in our experiment.[↗](../../permeate/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **permissible** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* (formal) Permissible means allowed by the rules or by law.[↗](../../permissible/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (formal) Permissible means acceptable.[↗](../../permissible/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* (formal) Calculators are permissible in this exam.[↗](../../permissible/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Is it permissible to bring a drink into the library?[↗](../../permissible/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The maximum permissible load is 500 kg.[↗](../../permissible/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Talking is not permissible during the test.[↗](../../permissible/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · (formal) It is permissible to round your answer to one decimal place.[↗](../../permissible/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Dogs are permissible on the beach after six.[↗](../../permissible/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **permission** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Permission is when someone in charge says yes, you are allowed to do something.[↗](../../permission/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* To ask permission means to ask if you may do something.[↗](../../permission/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* A permission slip is a form a parent signs to say a child can go on a trip.[↗](../../permission/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* You need permission to leave the classroom.[↗](../../permission/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Did you ask permission to borrow my pencil?[↗](../../permission/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Mum gave me permission to stay up late.[↗](../../permission/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Don't take things without permission.[↗](../../permission/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Bring back your signed permission slip for the zoo trip.[↗](../../permission/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · She asked her teacher for permission to go to the toilet.[↗](../../permission/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Always get permission before going to the park.[↗](../../permission/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · The app asks for permission to use the camera.[↗](../../permission/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · “Please give me permission to leave you today.”[↗](../../permission/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") **permit** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* (verb, formal) To allow someone to do something, or allow something to happen.[↗](../../permit/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (noun) An official paper that gives you permission to do something.[↗](../../permit/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* (verb) To make something possible.[↗](../../permit/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *e.g.* "weather permitting".[↗](../../permit/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Dogs are not permitted in the café.[↗](../../permit/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Mum permitted us to stay up late.[↗](../../permit/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · We'll have a picnic, weather permitting.[↗](../../permit/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · You need a permit to fish in this lake.[↗](../../permit/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Running is not permitted in the corridors.[↗](../../permit/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Dad showed his parking permit.[↗](../../permit/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Time did not permit a second game.[↗](../../permit/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · I could not permit such a thing.[↗](../../permit/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · These ten Sephiroth which are, moreover, ineffable, have their end even as their beginning, conjoined, even as is a flame to a burning coal: for our God is superlative in his unity, and does not permit any second one.[↗](../../permit/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887)[↗](../../permit/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · "Besides, who permitted Rabbi Akiba to write tiie Sefer Yetzirah ?[↗](../../permit/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))[↗](../../permit/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") **permutation** — *In Jewish tradition, meaning 1:* A change in the order of things, or one of the different ways of arranging a group of things.[↗](../../permutation/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* 21) The combination of the twenty-two letters without permutation is represented in the following table: (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)[↗](../../permutation/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · 22) The number of combinations of twenty-two letters two and two without any permutation is according to the mathematical formula (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)[↗](../../permutation/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · They are called Double, because each letter presents a contrast or permutation; thus Life and Death; Peace and War (Evil); Wisdom and Folly; Riches and Poverty; Grace and Indignation; Fertility and Solitude (Desolation); Power and Servitude.[↗](../../permutation/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)[↗](../../permutation/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") **pernicious** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Very harmful; slowly causing damage, ruin or trouble.[↗](../../pernicious/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The Romans worshipped Nemesis to ward off the pernicious consequences of envy.[↗](../../pernicious/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") **perpendicularly** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Straight up and down, or at a right angle (a square corner) to a line or surface.[↗](../../perpendicularly/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The heroes had their oars held perpendicularly, ready to let fall into the water.[↗](../../perpendicularly/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") **perpetrate** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* (formal) To do something wrong, harmful or illegal, such as a crime or a trick.[↗](../../perpetrate/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The police found who perpetrated the robbery.[↗](../../perpetrate/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Crimes perpetrated during wars must be investigated.[↗](../../perpetrate/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The trick was perpetrated by two clever boys.[↗](../../perpetrate/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · "Who perpetrated this mess?" asked Dad.[↗](../../perpetrate/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The fraud was perpetrated over many years.[↗](../../perpetrate/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · History remembers those who perpetrated great cruelty.[↗](../../perpetrate/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **perpetrator** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* (formal, law) A perpetrator is a person who does something wrong or harmful, especially a crime.[↗](../../perpetrator/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Police are searching for the perpetrator.[↗](../../perpetrator/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The perpetrator of the prank owned up.[↗](../../perpetrator/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Who was the perpetrator of this mess?[↗](../../perpetrator/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The detective found the perpetrator.[↗](../../perpetrator/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Bullying hurts both the victim and, in the long run, the perpetrator.[↗](../../perpetrator/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The perpetrators were sent to prison.[↗](../../perpetrator/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **perpetual** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Lasting forever or for a very long time, never ending.[↗](../../perpetual/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Happening again and again, so often it seems never to stop: perpetual complaints.[↗](../../perpetual/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* (of a calendar or plant) Working or flowering year after year without needing changing.[↗](../../perpetual/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The mountain tops are covered in perpetual snow.[↗](../../perpetual/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · A perpetual motion machine cannot be built.[↗](../../perpetual/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The baby's perpetual crying kept us awake.[↗](../../perpetual/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The lighthouse is a perpetual guard of the coast.[↗](../../perpetual/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · She lived in perpetual fear of spiders.[↗](../../perpetual/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The waterfall makes a perpetual roar.[↗](../../perpetual/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · The pattern 1, 2, 1, 2 is perpetual — it never ends.[↗](../../perpetual/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · THE WEASELS and the Mice waged a perpetual war with each other, in which much blood was shed.[↗](../../perpetual/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.[↗](../../perpetual/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah EXO.31.16, JPS 1917)[↗](../../perpetual/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · But the fields of the open land about their cities may not be sold; for that is their perpetual possession.[↗](../../perpetual/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah LEV.25.34, JPS 1917)[↗](../../perpetual/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · And when Aaron lighteth the lamps at dusk, he shall burn it, a perpetual incense before the LORD throughout your generations.[↗](../../perpetual/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah EXO.30.8, JPS 1917)[↗](../../perpetual/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") · And He smote His adversaries backward; He put upon them a perpetual reproach.[↗](../../perpetual/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings PSA.78.66, JPS 1917)[↗](../../perpetual/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") · Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding?[↗](../../perpetual/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets JER.8.5, JPS 1917)[↗](../../perpetual/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") · Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, so that it refuseth to be healed?[↗](../../perpetual/#x14 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets JER.15.18, JPS 1917)[↗](../../perpetual/#x14 "tree and pragmatics") **perpetually** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* All the time, without stopping; forever.[↗](../../perpetually/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Again and again, so often it seems constant: he is perpetually late.[↗](../../perpetually/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* My little brother is perpetually hungry.[↗](../../perpetually/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The Earth spins perpetually on its axis.[↗](../../perpetually/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Our neighbour's dog barks perpetually.[↗](../../perpetually/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Uncle Joe is perpetually late for dinner.[↗](../../perpetually/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The tap dripped perpetually all night.[↗](../../perpetually/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · She seemed perpetually cheerful.[↗](../../perpetually/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · The office printer is perpetually broken.[↗](../../perpetually/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · The river flows perpetually to the sea.[↗](../../perpetually/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · A FATHER had a family of sons who were perpetually quarreling among themselves.[↗](../../perpetually/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · For now have I chosen and hallowed this house, that My name may be there for ever; and Mine eyes and My heart shall be there perpetually.[↗](../../perpetually/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings 2CH.7.16, JPS 1917)[↗](../../perpetually/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") **perpetuate** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* To make something continue for a long time, often something bad like a myth, an unfair idea or a problem.[↗](../../perpetuate/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* To keep a memory or name alive.[↗](../../perpetuate/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *e.g.* "The statue perpetuates his memory."[↗](../../perpetuate/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Jokes like that perpetuate unkind stereotypes.[↗](../../perpetuate/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The film perpetuates the myth that bats are blind.[↗](../../perpetuate/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Sharing fake news perpetuates lies.[↗](../../perpetuate/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The scholarship perpetuates the memory of a kind teacher.[↗](../../perpetuate/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Poverty can perpetuate itself from parents to children.[↗](../../perpetuate/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · We must not perpetuate unfair rules.[↗](../../perpetuate/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Or perhaps she had really desired the son instead of the father, and her thwarted desire had perpetuated itself as hate.[↗](../../perpetuate/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **perpetuity** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* (formal, law) Lasting for ever or for an endless time; mostly in the phrase «in perpetuity» (for ever).[↗](../../perpetuity/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (money) A payment that goes on for ever.[↗](../../perpetuity/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The land was given to the town in perpetuity.[↗](../../perpetuity/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The grave is kept in perpetuity.[↗](../../perpetuity/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The charity owns the park in perpetuity.[↗](../../perpetuity/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The rights to the song belong to her in perpetuity.[↗](../../perpetuity/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · They promised to protect the forest in perpetuity.[↗](../../perpetuity/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · A perpetuity pays the same amount every year, for ever.[↗](../../perpetuity/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · And the land shall not be sold in perpetuity; for the land is Mine; for ye are strangers and settlers with Me.[↗](../../perpetuity/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah LEV.25.23, JPS 1917)[↗](../../perpetuity/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **perplexed** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Puzzled and unsure, not able to understand something.[↗](../../perplexed/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The yokel awaking is perplexed.[↗](../../perplexed/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · "Please, you must not joke with me, I am greatly perplexed."[↗](../../perplexed/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Then was king Belshazzar greatly affrighted, and his countenance was changed in him, and his lords were perplexed.[↗](../../perplexed/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings DAN.5.9, JPS 1917)[↗](../../perplexed/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.[↗](../../perplexed/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets JOL.1.18, JPS 1917)[↗](../../perplexed/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The posts went forth in haste by the king's commandment, and the decree was given out in Shushan the castle; and the king and Haman sat down to drink; but the city of Shushan was perplexed.[↗](../../perplexed/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings EST.3.15, JPS 1917)[↗](../../perplexed/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") **perplexity** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Perplexity is a state of being puzzled and not knowing what to think or do.[↗](../../perplexity/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (formal) A puzzling thing or problem.[↗](../../perplexity/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* He stood in great perplexity, unable to work out the answer.[↗](../../perplexity/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · To her perplexity, the door would not open.[↗](../../perplexity/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The puzzle caused him much perplexity.[↗](../../perplexity/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · For it is a day of trouble, and of trampling, and of perplexity, from the Lord, the GOD of hosts, in the Valley of Vision; Kir shouting, and Shoa at the mount.[↗](../../perplexity/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets ISA.22.5, JPS 1917)[↗](../../perplexity/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The best of them is as a brier; the most upright is worse than a thorn hedge; the day of thy watchmen, even thy visitation, is come; now shall be their perplexity.[↗](../../perplexity/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets MIC.7.4, JPS 1917)[↗](../../perplexity/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") **persecute** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* To persecute people is to treat them cruelly and unfairly for a long time, especially because of their religion, race, beliefs or who they are.[↗](../../persecute/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* To persecute someone can also mean to keep annoying or bothering them.[↗](../../persecute/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Many families fled their country because they were persecuted for their religion.[↗](../../persecute/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · (Bible) Before he became Paul, Saul persecuted the followers of Jesus.[↗](../../persecute/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The early Christians were persecuted by Roman emperors.[↗](../../persecute/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · People should never be persecuted for the colour of their skin.[↗](../../persecute/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Refugees often escape from being persecuted.[↗](../../persecute/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The bullies persecuted him with nasty messages for weeks.[↗](../../persecute/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Nevertheless, he does not cease to persecute me and to kill my subjects.[↗](../../persecute/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · And the LORD thy God will put all these curses upon thine enemies, and on them that hate thee, that persecuted thee.[↗](../../persecute/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah DEU.30.7, JPS 1917)[↗](../../persecute/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · When wilt Thou execute judgment on them that persecute me?[↗](../../persecute/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings PSA.119.84, JPS 1917)[↗](../../persecute/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · All Thy commandments are faithful; they persecute me for nought; help Thou me.[↗](../../persecute/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings PSA.119.86, JPS 1917)[↗](../../persecute/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?[↗](../../persecute/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings JOB.19.22, JPS 1917)[↗](../../persecute/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/P/) … [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/P/page/20/) **21** [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/P/page/22/) … [77](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/P/page/77/) - ← previous: [page 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/P/page/20/) - next →: [page 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/P/page/22/) - ↑ back to [The English dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/)