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Etymology
From the root. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1)  to draw into temptation, to lead astray
 * 2)  to enchant, to captivate, to charm, to bewitch; to seduce
 * 3)  to afflict, to test, to try
 * 4)  to persecute, to victimize, to oppress; to torture (in order to forcibly convert or impose a particular ideology, for example)
 * 5)  to burn, to roast
 * 6)  to melt, to smelt
 * 1)  to persecute, to victimize, to oppress; to torture (in order to forcibly convert or impose a particular ideology, for example)
 * 2)  to burn, to roast
 * 3)  to melt, to smelt
 * 1)  to persecute, to victimize, to oppress; to torture (in order to forcibly convert or impose a particular ideology, for example)
 * 2)  to burn, to roast
 * 3)  to melt, to smelt
 * 1)  to burn, to roast
 * 2)  to melt, to smelt
 * 1)  to melt, to smelt
 * 1)  to melt, to smelt

Usage notes

 * In the sense "to persecute; to torture", the word almost always refers to condemned judgment. This is because the dominant sense is that of misleading, hence "to oppress or torture in order to mislead". If the persecution is deemed rightful, justified, or deserved, other, oftentimes overtly emotive, terms are used instead, which are connotationally closer to "punish" than "persecute". Fairly neutral synonymous terms with like denotations include and.