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Harass   /hərˈæs/   Listen
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Harass  v. t.  (past & past part. harassed; pres. part. harassing)  To fatigue; to tire with repeated and exhausting efforts; esp., to weary by importunity, teasing, or fretting; to cause to endure excessive burdens or anxieties; sometimes followed by out. "(Troops) harassed with a long and wearisome march." "Nature oppressed and harass'd out with care." "Vext with lawyers and harass'd with debt."
Synonyms: To weary; jade; tire; perplex; distress; tease; worry; disquiet; chafe; gall; annoy; irritate; plague; vex; molest; trouble; disturb; torment.



noun
Harass  n.  
1.
Devastation; waste. (Obs.)
2.
Worry; harassment. (R.)






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Harass" Quotes from Famous Books



... of grenades; these were taken up by the battalion transport at night. Also that the grenades in the trenches and all bomb stores were properly stored and cleaned. I had also to see that sufficient rifle-grenades were fired at night to harass the enemy's working-parties, and that ...
— Q.6.a and Other places - Recollections of 1916, 1917 and 1918 • Francis Buckley

... defence of this country against an enemy once landed, is by the immense irregular cavalry that might be collected, and formed round small bodies of disciplined horse. This, of course, does not exclude the necessity of some infantry to oppose the enemy in front, while the cavalry harass his flanks and rear, and while your naval force, even supposing it unable to have prevented the landing, cuts off all possibility of supplies from France. We are preparing, partly with the latter view, and partly as a means of defence where frigates ...
— Memoirs of the Court and Cabinets of George the Third, Volume 2 (of 2) - From the Original Family Documents • The Duke of Buckingham

... of Chloe's absurd hypotheses. It was somewhere, no doubt, among the boxes in the locked room; and who could possibly get hold of it? At the same time he realized that as long as he had not found and returned it she would still have a certain claim upon him, a certain right to harass him with inquiries and confidential interviews, which, as a man of honour, ...
— Marriage a la mode • Mrs. Humphry Ward

... You must help us to circumvent the machinations of the rebel agents in Canada. There is no doubt they will use your country as a communicating link with Europe, and also with their friends in New York. It is quite possible, also, that they may make Canada a base from which to harass and annoy our people along ...
— The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln • Francis Fisher Browne

... over the last moments of this our brother in the Gospel of Christ—in Thy kingdom and patience. Let Thy servant depart in peace. Suffer not Satan to harass and annoy him, nor the thought of his own sins to grieve and shake him. Fix his mind firmly upon Thee and on Thy Christ. O holy and merciful Saviour, suffer him not, at his last hour, for any pains of death, ...
— Robin Tremain - A Story of the Marian Persecution • Emily Sarah Holt


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