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WITCH-HUNT

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• WITCH-HUNT (noun)
The noun WITCH-HUNT has 1 sense:

1. searching out and harassing dissenters

Familiarity information: WITCH-HUNT used as a noun is very rare.

• WITCH-HUNT (noun)

Sense 1

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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))

"Learn to walk before you run."
(English proverb)
"Mouth will not be sweet if you say halva"
(Azerbaijani proverb)
"The best of the things you own, is what is useful to you."
(Arabic proverb)
"He who protects himself from cold also wards off heat."
(Corsican proverb)

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