Harass
['hærəs;hə'ræs] or [ˈhærəs,həˈræs]
Definition
(verb.) exhaust by attacking repeatedly; 'harass the enemy'.
(verb.) annoy continually or chronically; 'He is known to harry his staff when he is overworked'; 'This man harasses his female co-workers'.
Edited by Cecilia--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) 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.
(n.) Devastation; waste.
(n.) Worry; harassment.
Edited by Angus
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Fatigue, tire, weary, fag, jade, exhaust, tire out, KNOCK UP.[2]. Vex, plague, worry, tease, distress, trouble, molest, disturb, harry, drive from pillar to post.
Checked by Carmen
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Weary, annoy, fatigue, jade, tease, irritate, chafe, molest, worry, vex,harrow, pester, tora, ent, tire, perplex, distress
ANT:Refresh, comfort, solace, relieve, soothe, animate, inspirit
Editor: Simon
Definition
v.t. to fatigue: to annoy or torment.—p.adj. Har′assed.—adv. Har′assedly.—n. Har′asser.—p.adj. Har′assing.—adv. Har′assingly.—n. Har′assment.
Checker: Percy
Examples
- I beg you will not harass me, Caroline. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Another enemy to harass me in my misery? Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- No true friendship would harass me thus. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Why should he go to India, except to harass me? Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- The enemy did not harass us much while we were constructing our batteries. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The employments of people of some rank and fortune, besides, are seldom such as harass them from morning to night. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Wiley is another case of the creative mind harassed by the routineers. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Clennam, harassed by more anxieties than one, was among this devoted band. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- It kept up a slow fire of indignation and a trembling trouble of grief, which harassed and crushed me altogether. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Many that want food and clothing have cheerier lives and brighter prospects than she had; many, harassed by poverty, are in a strait less afflictive. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I am harassed with the girl, and yet I cannot part with her lest I should get a worse. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I say, I can conceive this, if he were under the pressure of hard circumstances--if he had been harassed as I feel sure Lydgate has been. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I won't have you harassed by them: and they will insult you if you stay. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- You must see that it is only harassing me. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- This influence had become more harassing and decided, since partial insanity had given a strange, weird, unsettled cast to all her words and language. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- I saw some, with naturally elevated tendencies and good feelings, kept down amongst sordid privations and harassing griefs. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I would have him die a harassing and lingering death. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- I found it rather harassing to live in this state of siege, but was too much afraid of Mrs. Crupp to see any way out of it. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- She ran to and fro, whiningspringing, harassing little birds amongst the bushes. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- If you knew the harassing anxiety that gnaws and wears me when I am wandering in those places--where are those endless places, Mortimer? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
Editor: Simon