HARASS

v. n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
v.

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. Bacon. Nature oppressed and harass'd out with care. Addison. Vext with lawyers and harass'd with debt. Tennyson.

2.
n.

Devastation; waste. [Obs.] Milton.

3.
n.

Worry; harassment. [R.] Byron.


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