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Witch-hunt   /wɪtʃ-hənt/   Listen
Witch-hunt

noun
1.
Searching out and harassing dissenters.





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"Witch-hunt" Quotes from Famous Books



... was quiet until the Feast of the First-fruits was ended. But few people were killed at these feast, though there was a great Ingomboco, or witch-hunt, and many were smelt out by the witch-doctors as working magic against the king. Now things had come to this pass in Zululand—that the whole people cowered before the witch-doctors. No man might sleep safe, for none ...
— Nada the Lily • H. Rider Haggard


Words linked to "Witch-hunt" :   McCarthyism, molestation, harassment


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