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Harass

verb

(past & past part. harassed; pres. part. harassing)

Annoy continually or chronically. Synonyms: beset, chevvy, chevy, chivvy, chivy, harry, hassle, molest, plague, provoke. "This man harasses his female co-workers"

Exhaust by attacking repeatedly.

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"Harass" Quotes from Famous Books

... How could the necessary evidence be obtained? How bring their murderers to justice without proof of the "corpus delicti"? Could this dying man know other facts furnishing a clew to establish their deaths? Would it be right to harass him with further inquiry upon the verge of the tomb? Why employ his slender thread of life in unraveling this intricate web. Better point him to that hope which is the ...

— Oswald Langdon - or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898 • Carson Jay Lee

... try,' pursued he, disconsolately, 'whether she did think me any steadier. I hope she did not think me very troublesome. I tried not to harass her much.' ...

— Dynevor Terrace (Vol. I) - or, The Clue of Life • Charlotte M. Yonge

... happiest there: With thousands more of this inconstant race, Would tire e'en Fabius to relate each case. Not to detain you longer, pray attend, The issue of all this: Should Jove descend, And grant to every man his rash demand, To run his lengths with a neglectful hand; First, grant the harass'd warrior a release, Bid him to trade, and try the faithless seas, To purchase treasure and declining ease: Next, call the pleader from his learned strife, To the calm blessings of a country life: And with these ...

— The Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3 - With Translations and Index for the Series • Joseph Addison and Richard Steele

... about me, Agnes—and what I've been led to believe, we'll save that for a future time. I think I'm enough of a man not to harass a person ...

— The White Desert • Courtney Ryley Cooper

... as snipers to worry and harass the enemy. They were posted at loopholes and in various positions that commanded a good outlook, and they fired carefully and deliberately at loopholes in the enemy parapet, at doors and windows ...

— Between the Lines • Boyd Cable

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