harass
IPA: hɝˈæs
noun
- (archaic) Harassment; pestering.
verb
- To annoy (someone) frequently or systematically; to pester.
- (specifically) To persistently bother (someone, or a group of people) physically or psychologically when such behaviour is illegal and/or unwanted, especially over an extended period.
- To put excessive burdens upon (someone); to subject (someone) to anxieties.
- To trouble (someone, or a group of people) through repeated military-style attacks.
- (obsolete) Often followed by out: to fatigue or tire (someone) with exhausting and repeated efforts.
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Examples of "harass" in Sentences
- The stalking and harassment continued.
- He was polite, and in the face of harassment.
- The police were constantly harassing the punks.
- Most victims of the harassment and ostracism survive.
- By the way, your accusation of harassment is repugnant.
- That is intense harassment of the most despicable kind.
- Bishonen was the victim of targeted misogynist harassment.
- Would that more foreigners would "harass" people in this way in Taiwan.
- It's counterproductive to the project to further encourage the harassment.
- Prisoners are not to harass or interfere with the administration of the camp.
- The rebels were harried and harassed, forced to expend valuable ammunition and fuel.
- I might also be said to be intending to "harass" -- who knows, given how vague the term is?
- They think our money is spent paying officers to "harass" the hunting public or pick up dead deer along the highways.
- Despite the frequency with which I use the verb "harass," I think this entry should've been entitled "Hassle Hasbro."
- Another opposition deputy singled out by Mugabe, Mike Auret, said there was nothing that Mugabe could "harass" him for.
- After the fight that we didn't get to see with Bumblebee because we were forced to see a robotic gremlin harass 2 annoying kids, Barricade disappeared from the film.
- Anyway, Myles wins the thread – by the time you’re harassing Pomona College students, the only more inoffensive and unlikely Americans left to harass is a senior citizens’ yoga group.
- February 10th, 2010 at 6: 09 pm by the time you’re harassing Pomona College students, the only more inoffensive and unlikely Americans left to harass is a senior citizens’ yoga group.
- Immigration officials in the Transkei region were on a new campaign to "harass" expatriate teachers who had no work permits, a delegation of Indian nationals claimed in Umtata at the weekend.
- Day to day, though, censorship is less about dissuading the truly motivated (though, if it can make them easy to detect and harass, that is a plus) and more about preventing the casual from becoming motivated.