WITCH-HUNT

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Searching out and harassing dissenters

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("witch-hunt" is a kind of...):

harassment; molestation (the act of tormenting by continued persistent attacks and criticism)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "witch-hunt"):

McCarthyism (unscrupulously accusing people of disloyalty (as by saying they were Communists))

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