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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

HAR'ASS, v.t.
1. To weary; to fatigue to excess; to tire with bodily labor; as, to harass an army by a long march.
2. To weary with importunity, care, or perplexity; to tease; to perplex.
Nature oppress'd and harrass'd out with care.
3. To waste or desolate.
HAR'ASS, n. Waste; disturbance; devastation. [Little used.]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: annoy continually or chronically; "He is known to harry his staff when he is overworked"; "This man harasses his female co-workers" [syn: harass, hassle, harry, chivy, chivvy, chevy, chevvy, beset, plague, molest, provoke]
2: exhaust by attacking repeatedly; "harass the enemy"

Merriam Webster's

transitive verb Etymology: French harasser, from Middle French, from harer to set a dog on, from Old French hare, interjection used to incite dogs, of Germanic origin; akin to Old High German hier here — more at here Date: 1617 1. a. exhaust, fatigue b. (1) to annoy persistently (2) to create an unpleasant or hostile situation for especially by uninvited and unwelcome verbal or physical conduct 2. to worry and impede by repeated raids <harassed the enemy> Synonyms: see worry • harasser noun • harassment noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

disp. v.tr. 1 trouble and annoy continually or repeatedly. 2 make repeated attacks on (an enemy or opponent). Derivatives: harasser n. harassingly adv. harassment n. Etymology: F harasser f. OF harer set a dog on

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Harass Har"ass, n. 1. Devastation; waste. [Obs.] --Milton. 2. Worry; harassment. [R.] --Byron.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Harass Har"ass (h[a^]r"as), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Harassed; p. pr. & vb. n. Harassing.] [F. harasser; cf. OF. harace a basket made of cords, harace, harasse,a very heavy and large shield; or harer to set (a dog) on.] 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. Syn: To weary; jade; tire; perplex; distress; tease; worry; disquiet; chafe; gall; annoy; irritate; plague; vex; molest; trouble; disturb; torment.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(harasses, harassing, harassed) If someone harasses you, they trouble or annoy you, for example by attacking you repeatedly or by causing you as many problems as they can. A woman reporter complained one of them sexually harassed her in the locker room... VERB: V n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

v. a. 1. Fatigue, tire, weary, fag, jade, exhaust, tire out. 2. Vex, plague, worry, distress, trouble, molest, disturb, harry, annoy, torment, keep in alarm, keep assaulting, drive from pillar to post.

Moby Thesaurus

abuse, afflict, aggravate, aggrieve, ail, annoy, badger, bait, be at, be the matter, beat, bedevil, befoul, beleaguer, beset, besiege, bewitch, blight, blockade, bludgeon, bluster, bluster out of, bother, bristle, browbeat, brown off, bug, bulldoze, bully, bullyrag, burn out, burn up, chevy, chivy, complicate matters, concern, condemn, corrupt, cow, crucify, curse, damage, debilitate, defile, demoralize, deprave, despoil, destroy, devil, disadvantage, discommode, discompose, disserve, distemper, distress, disturb, do a mischief, do evil, do ill, do in, do up, do wrong, do wrong by, dog, doom, dragoon, encircle, encompass, enervate, envelop, envenom, exasperate, exercise, exhaust, fag, fag out, fash, fatigue, flag, foray, frazzle, fret, get, get into trouble, gnaw, gripe, harm, harry, haunt, heckle, hector, hex, hound, huff, hunt, hurt, impair, inconvenience, infect, injure, intimidate, invest, irk, irritate, jade, jinx, knock out, knock up, lay siege to, maltreat, maraud, menace, miff, mistreat, molest, nag, needle, nettle, nudzh, oppress, outrage, overfatigue, overstrain, overtire, overweary, pain, peeve, perplex, persecute, perturb, pester, pick at, pick on, pique, plague, play havoc with, play hob with, pluck the beard, poison, pollute, poop, poop out, pother, prejudice, prostrate, provoke, pursue, put out, put to it, puzzle, ride, rile, roil, ruffle, savage, scathe, soften up, strain, stress, surround, systematically terrorize, taint, tease, terrorize, threaten, tire, tire out, tire to death, torment, torture, trouble, try, try the patience, tucker, tweak the nose, use up, vex, victimize, violate, weaken, wear, wear down, wear on, wear out, weary, wilt, wind, worry, wound, wreak havoc on, wrong