Associations to the word «Witch-hunt»
Wiktionary
WITCH-HUNT, noun. (historical) A search for witches, persons believed to be using sorcery or harmful magic, in order to persecute and typically kill them.
WITCH-HUNT, noun. An attempt to find and publicly punish a group of people perceived as a threat, usually on ideological or political grounds.
WITCH-HUNT, noun. A public smear-campaign against an individual.
Dictionary definition
WITCH-HUNT, noun. Searching out and harassing dissenters.
Wise words
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike
fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the
new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.