PERSECUTEES Antonyms

• someone who attacks

• a confident assertive person who acts as instigator

• someone who offers opposition

• a muscle that relaxes while another contracts

• a drug that neutralizes or counteracts the effects of another drug

• someone who attacks

• a cruel and brutal fellow

• a hired thug

• excellent

• be bossy towards

• discourage or frighten with threats or a domineering manner; intimidate

• a persistent tormentor

• a persistent attacker

• a person of authority who subjects others to undue pressures

• someone who torments

• a flat at each side of the stage to prevent the audience from seeing into the wings

• someone who inflicts severe physical pain (usually for punishment or coercion)

• a cruel and oppressive dictator

• in ancient Greece, a ruler who had seized power without legal right to it

• any person who exercises power in a cruel way