HARASSED • E-FREE TRANSLATION.COM • Definition of Harassed

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/hərˈæst/ Listen

Harassed

adjective

Troubled persistently especially with petty annoyances. Synonyms: annoyed, harried, pestered, vexed. "A harried expression" , "Her poor pestered father had to endure her constant interruptions" , "The vexed parents of an unruly teenager"

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.

See more definitions of Harassed...

See images of 'Harassed'

Etymology of 'Harassed'

Related searches:

harasser

harassment

Share |

"Harassed" Quotes from Famous Books

... years at Palgrave, during which, in spite of her cheerful energy, Mrs. Barbauld had been much harassed by the nervous irritability of her invalid husband, the Barbaulds gave up their school and treated themselves to a year of Continental travel. On their return they settled at Hampstead, where Mr. Barbauld became ...

— Library Of The World's Best Literature, Ancient And Modern, Vol 4 • Charles Dudley Warner

... its own discretion in the election of a new king, but it takes note of popular sentiment; and a general who at the critical time could come home victorious from a great campaign, which moreover would release a harassed people from the constant application of arms, would be the idol of the moment. These things were pointed out to me solemnly ...

— The Lost Continent • C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne

... more pitiful tales than this, if need were—tales of women in child-bed tormented with anxiety because their husbands are out of work, and there is no money in the cottage, and no prospect of any; or harassed by the distress of little children who miss the help which the mother cannot give, and so on. But this case illustrates the normal situation. Here there was no actual destitution, nor any fear of it, and the other children were being cared for. The husband was earning ...

— Change in the Village • (AKA George Bourne) George Sturt

... range the field putting forth every exertion, the heroic charioteer of Sakra was well-pleased. And oppressed by those steeds and that car, some (of them) met with annihilation; and others desisted from fight; while (other) Nivata-Kavachas, challenged by us in battle and being harassed with shafts offered opposition unto me, by (discharging) mighty showers of arrows. Thereupon, with hundreds and thousands of sundry fleet weapons inspired with the mantras relating to Brahma's weapons, I swiftly began to burn them. And being sore pressed by ...

— The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Bk. 3 Pt. 2 • Translated by Kisari Mohan Ganguli

... the heart ought to be confessed at all, only those things should be confessed which involve full consent to the deed; and such things happen very rarely or never to those who wish to lead pious lives, even though they are constantly harassed by ...

— Works of Martin Luther - With Introductions and Notes (Volume I) • Martin Luther

More quotes...