harassv.

Brit.

/ˈharəs/,

/həˈras/, U.S.

/həˈræs/,

/ˈhɛrəs/

Forms: Also 1600s harraze, har(r)asse, 1600s–1700s harrass.

Etymology: < French harasser (1562 in Godefroy) ‘to tire or toyle out, to spend or weaken, wearie or weare out by ouertoyling; also, to vex, disquiet, importune, harrie, hurrie, turmoile, torment’ (Cotgrave); perhaps a derivative form of Old French harer to set a dog on.

†1. transitive. To wear out, tire out, or exhaust with fatigue, care, trouble, etc. Obsolete or dialect.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > weariness or exhaustion > weary or exhaust [verb (transitive)]

wearyc897

tirea1000

travailc1300

forwearya1325

taryc1375

tarc1440

matec1450

break1483

labour1496

overwearya1500

wear?1507

to wear out, forth1525

fatigate1535

stress1540

overtire1558

forwaste1563

to tire out1563

overwear1578

spend1582

out-tire1596

outwear1596

outweary1596

overspend1596

to toil out1596

attediate1603

bejade1620

lassate1623

harassa1626

overtask1628

tax1672

hag1674

trash1685

hatter1687

overtax1692

fatigue1693

to knock up1740

tire to death1740

overfatigue1741

fag1774

outdo1776

to do over1789

to use up1790

jade1798

overdo1817

frazzlea1825

worry1828

to sew up1837

to wear to death1840

to take it (also a lot, too much, etc.) out of (a person)1847

gruel1850

to stump up1853

exhaust1860

finish1864

peter1869

knacker1886

grind1887

tew1893

crease1925

poop1931

raddle1951

a1626 F. Bacon Considerations War with Spain in Wks. (1874) XIV. 483 These troops came to the army but the day before, harassed with a long and wearisome march.

1656 T. Blount Glossographia Harasse..to tire or toyl out, to spend or weaken, weary, or wear out.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 102 When athirst, restrain 'em from the flood: Their Bodies harrass, sink 'em when they run.

1713 J. Addison Cato v. i Nature oppress'd, and harrass'd out with care, Sinks down to rest.

c1721 W. Gibson True Method dieting Horses x. 159 After they [horses] have been harass'd, and gone through their assigned Tasks..they should be rid gently out of the Manage.

1772 J. Adams tr. A. de Ulloa Voy. S. Amer. (ed. 3) I. 37 They are so harrassed with labour, and their wages so small.

†2. To harry, lay waste, devastate, plunder. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > destroy [verb (transitive)] > devastate or lay waste (a place, etc.)

harryc893

fordoc900

awesteeOE

westeeOE

losec950

harrowc1000

destroyc1230

wastec1275

ravishc1325

to lie waste1338

exilea1382

to-wastea1382

unronea1400

desolatea1425

vast1434

fruster?a1513

to lay waste1535

wipe1535

devast1537

depopulate1548

populate1552

forwaste1563

ruinate1564

havoc1575

scourge1576

dispopulate1588

destitute1593

ravage1602

harassa1618

devastate1638

execute1679

to make stroy of1682

to lay in ashes1711

untown1783

hell-rake1830

uncity1850

society > armed hostility > attack > invasion > invade [verb (transitive)] > overrun or harry

begoa855

harryc893

war1297

overridea1375

yerna1400

overrun?a1425

overharry1600

harrow1606

harassa1618

sweep1788

jay-hawk1866

a1618 W. Raleigh Life & Death Mahomet (1637) 65 Burnt and harrazed the Countrie.

1665 T. Manley tr. H. Grotius De Rebus Belgicis 261 While they harassed the Fields.

1684 Scanderbeg Redivivus vi. 137 Parties which Harrassed and Plundred and Burnt all the Country.

1710 H. Prideaux Orig. & Right Tithes iv. 198 The Danish War..very cruelly harassed this Land.

3. To trouble or vex by repeated attacks.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > attack > attack [verb (transitive)] > harass or press hard

forcec1330

pressc1450

express1490

gall1548

harass1622

1622 F. Bacon Hist. Raigne Henry VII 63 (R.) To harrasse and wearie the English, they did vpon all aduantages set vpon them with their light-horse.

1712 J. Swift Proposal for Eng. Tongue 9 The Britains..daily harassed by cruel Inroads from the Picts.

1783 Polite Trav. 77 The new settlers had..no enemy to harrass them.

1838 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece (new ed.) III. 343 The Argives continued..to harass the Epidaurians with repeated incursions.

1865 F. Parkman Huguenots i, in Pioneers of France in New World 8 The Indians unceasingly harassed their march.

4. To trouble, worry, distress with annoying labour, care, perplexity, importunity, misfortune, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > suffering > state of being harassed > harass [verb (transitive)]

tawc893

ermec897

swencheOE

besetOE

bestandc1000

teenOE

baitc1175

grieve?c1225

war?c1225

noyc1300

pursuec1300

travailc1300

to work (also do) annoyc1300

tribula1325

worka1325

to hold wakenc1330

chase1340

twistc1374

wrap1380

cumbera1400

harrya1400

vexc1410

encumber1413

inquiet1413

molest?a1425

course1466

persecutec1475

trouble1489

sturt1513

hare1523

hag1525

hale1530

exercise1531

to grate on or upon1532

to hold or keep waking1533

infest1533

scourge1540

molestate1543

pinch1548

trounce1551

to shake upa1556

tire1558

moila1560

pester1566

importune1578

hunt1583

moider1587

bebait1589

commacerate1596

bepester1600

ferret1600

harsell1603

hurry1611

gall1614

betoil1622

weary1633

tribulatea1637

harass1656

dun1659

overharry1665

worry1671

haul1678

to plague the life out of1746

badger1782

hatchel1800

worry1811

bedevil1823

devil1823

victimize1830

frab1848

mither1848

to pester the life out of1848

haik1855

beplague1870

chevy1872

obsede1876

to get on ——1880

to load up with1880

tail-twist1898

hassle1901

heckle1920

snooter1923

hassle1945

to breathe down (the back of) (someone's) neck1946

to bust (a person's) chops1953

noodge1960

monster1967

1656 T. Blount Glossographia Harasse..also to vex, disquiet, etc.

1695 J. Woodward Ess. Nat. Hist. Earth 142 Alarmed and harrassed by Earthquakes.

1738 S. Johnson London 166 The griefs that harass the distress'd.

1854 H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity III. vi. iii. 42 A mind harassed by the perplexing state of affairs.

1856 Ld. Tennyson Maud (rev. ed.) xix. iii, in Maud & Other Poems (new ed.) 65 Vext with lawyers and harass'd with debt.

in extended use.1737 W. Whiston tr. Josephus Antiq. Jews i. i, in tr. Josephus Genuine Wks. 6 When it [sc. the ground] should be harassed by their labour, it should bring forth some of its fruits.

5. technical. To scrape or rub.

ΚΠ

1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) III. 93 To soften the skins after dyeing, they are harassed by a knife, the point of which is curved upwards.

Derivatives

ˈharassed adj.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > weariness or exhaustion > [adjective]

wearyc825

asadc1306

ateyntc1325

attaintc1325

recrayed1340

methefula1350

for-wearya1375

matea1375

taintc1380

heavy1382

fortireda1400

methefula1400

afoundered?a1425

tewedc1440

travailedc1440

wearisomec1460

fatigate1471

defatigatec1487

tired1488

recreant1490

yolden?1507

fulyeit?a1513

traiked?a1513

tavert1535

wearied1538

fatigated1552

awearya1555

forwearied1562

overtired1567

spenta1568

done1575

awearied1577

stank1579

languishinga1586

bankrupt?1589

fordone1590

spent1591

overwearied1592

overworn1592

outworn1597

half-dead1601

back-broken1603

tiry1611

defatigated1612

dog-wearya1616

overweary1617

exhaust1621

worn-out1639

embossed1651

outspent1652

exhausted1667

beaten1681

bejaded1687

harassed1693

jaded1693

lassate1694

defeata1732

beat out1758

fagged1764

dog-tired1770

fessive1773

done-up1784

forjeskit1786

ramfeezled1786

done-over1789

fatigued1791

forfoughten1794

worn-up1812

dead1813

out-burnta1821

prostrate1820

dead beat1822

told out1822

bone-tireda1825

traiky1825

overfatigued1834

outwearied1837

done like (a) dinner1838

magged1839

used up1839

tuckered outc1840

drained1855

floored1857

weariful1862

wappered1868

bushed1870

bezzled1875

dead-beaten1875

down1885

tucked up1891

ready (or fit) to drop1892

buggered-up1893

ground-down1897

played1897

veal-bled1899

stove-up1901

trachled1910

ragged1912

beat up1914

done in1917

whacked1919

washy1922

pooped1928

shattered1930

punchy1932

shagged1932

shot1939

whipped1940

buggered1942

flaked (out)1942

fucked1949

sold-out1958

wiped1958

burnt out1959

wrung out1962

juiced1965

hanging1971

zonked1972

maxed1978

raddled1978

zoned1980

cream crackered1983

the mind > emotion > suffering > state of being harassed > [adjective]

slatc1300

bested1303

forswonga1400

vexed1440

plagued1563

molested1580

bustled1602

grieved1627

travailed1644

over-troubled1646

harassed1693

baited1720

badgered1794

gêné1806

bedevilled1827

besieged1866

1693 C. Dryden tr. Juvenal in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires vii. 137 Whether he should..into Quarters put his harrass'd Men.

1757 G. Shelvocke, Jr. Shelvocke's Voy. round World (ed. 2) vii. 217 Not..a seat whereon to rest our harrassed limbs.

1884 L. J. Jennings in Croker Papers I. xii. 359 His successor..passed a harassed life.

ˈharassedly adv.

ΚΠ

1891 Harper's Weekly 19 Sept. 710/2 On the edge of life, fighting anxiously, harassedly, for a foothold.

ˈharassing adj.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > weariness or exhaustion > [adjective] > causing weariness or exhaustion

wearyc1315

soakingc1440

tired1548

moilingc1566

wearisome1593

tiring1594

overtiring1598

tiresome1598

defatigating1634

defatigable1654

fatigable1656

fatiguing1708

fatiguesomea1734

jading1766

fagging1787

wearying1798

exhausting18..

taversome1808

harassing1833

killing1850

trashing1861

trachling1902

the mind > emotion > suffering > state of being harassed > [adjective] > harassing

griefa1300

grievous13..

travailinga1450

importunatea1500

unportunatea1533

importunable1566

infestive1570

infestuous1593

plaguey1595

infestious1597

importunous1598

obsidious1615

vexatious?1626

pestifying1716

harassing1833

obsidional1879

infesting1881

obseding1885

1833 H. Martineau Berkeley the Banker i. vii. 137 You must have had..an extremely harassing day, Sir.

1868 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest II. ix. 389 The harassing attacks of the nimble Welsh.

ˈharassingly adv.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > suffering > state of being harassed > [adverb]

grievously1303

teenfullya1375

griefc1400

infestuously1604

on, upon the back of1608

pesteringly1657

harassingly1822

1822 W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. 99 290 The roads became harassingly bad.

1886 Sat. Rev. 20 Mar. 417 Schumann literature..has become almost harassingly voluminous.

ˈharassable adj. capable of being harassed.

ΚΠ

1882 J. Hawthorne Fortune's Fool xiv, in Macmillan's Mag. Mar. 345/1 She..knew where his harassable points were and how to irritate them.

ˈharasser n. one who or that which harasses.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > suffering > state of being harassed > [noun] > one who or that which harasses

pursuera1382

running sore1453

pesta1522

gall1537

grater1549

plaguer1598

afflicter1600

inflicter1605

a thorn in the flesh or side1611

incubus1648

cumber1669

harasser1707

scunner1796

tin kettle1796

pester1810

pesterer1824

baitera1845

pestilence1886

nudnik1916

1707 London Gaz. No. 4322/1 Fire and Sword, the too too fatal Harassers of these bordering Places.

1801 G. Ellis Specimens Early Eng. Poets (rev. ed.) I. 23 Unnumbered harassers, Of the fleet and Scotch.

ˈharassery n. harassing action.Apparently an isolated use.

ΚΠ

1834 J. W. Croker in Croker Papers 10 Dec. (1884) II Well may you talk of ‘harassing cares’. The first that I dread for you are the personal harasseries of individual pretenders.

Draft additions August 2001

transitive. To subject (an individual or group) to unwarranted (and now esp. unlawful) physical or psychological intimidation, usually persistently over a period; to persecute. Also more generally: to beleaguer, pester.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > hostile action or attack > make an attack upon [verb (transitive)] > persecute

seekc825

baitc1175

war?c1225

pursuec1300

chase1340

course1466

persecutea1475

suea1500

pickc1550

pursuit1563

prosecute1588

exagitate1602

dragoon1689

harass1788

martyr1851

dragonnade1881

witch-hunt1919

vamp1970

the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > quality of being intimidating > intimidate or bully [verb (transitive)]

awec1225

bashc1375

palla1393

argh1393

formengea1400

matea1400

boasta1522

quail1526

brag1551

appale1563

browbeat1581

adaw1590

overdare1590

dastard1593

strike1598

disdare1612

cowa1616

dare1619

daw1631

bounce1640

dastardize1645

intimidate1646

hector1664

out-hector1672

huff1674

bully1685

harass1788

bullyraga1790

major1829

haze1851

bullock1875

to push (someone) around1900

to put the frighteners in, on1958

psych1963

vibe1979

1788 M. Wollstonecraft Mary v. 37 This man made a private fortune by harassing the tenants of the person to whom he was deputy.

a1817 J. Austen Northanger Abbey (1818) I. iii. 33 I know exactly what you will say: Friday, went to the Lower Rooms..; was strangely harassed by a queer, half-witted man who would make me dance with him, and distressed me by his nonsense.

1855 Househ. Words 8 Dec. 442/2 He harassed me with questions about the book as pertinaciously as any senate-house examiner.

1890 U.S. Rep. (Supreme Court) 133 625 He is allowed..[to] save the mortgagor..from being harassed for the payment of the debt.

1959 U.S. Rep. (Supreme Court) 355 133 The plant manager was followed by the strikers each time he left the plant; he was also harassed at night..by numerous anonymous telephone calls.

1977 J. Burke Jowitt's Dict. Eng. Law (ed. 2) I. 890/2 A person commits an offence if..he harasses the other with demands for payment which..are calculated to subject him or members of his family or household to alarm, distress or humiliation.

1984 S. Townsend Growing Pains Adrian Mole 18 Mitzi's owner, a Mrs. Carmichael, said that if our dog ‘continued harassing Mitzi’ she would be forced to report our dog to the police.

1993 Time 18 Jan. 45/3 Since 1990 at least 28 states have passed ‘stalking laws’ that make it a crime to threaten, follow or harass someone.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	harass
释义	harassn. Etymology: < harass v.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈharass. Harassment. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > state of being harassed > [noun] > harassment baiting1303 cumbrance1377 persecutiona1382 pursuita1387 aggrievancea1400 vexing?a1425 molestation1435 stroublance1439 inquietation1461 distrouble1483 infestance1490 encumberment1509 molesting1523 vexationa1525 inquieting1527 inquietance1531 molestie1532 infestationc1540 moiling1565 plaguing1566 pesterment1593 commacerating1599 molestance1642 harass1667 harassing1689 harassment1753 aggrievement1778 badgering1785 pesteration1802 bedevilment1844 worrying1848 tail-twisting1887 bloodhounding1891 aggravation1902 static1923 crap1935 hassle1969 monstering1979 1667 E. Waterhouse Short Narr. Fire London 66 This late harrass of us by a more than Gottish and Vandallique fire. 1748 S. Richardson Clarissa IV. xxxiv. 199 The harasses and doubts, that I have laboured under. 1814 Ld. Byron Lara ii. xi. 942 The daily harass, and the fight delayed. 1875 M. Pattison I. Casaubon 31 He struggles, all through a life of harass, to have his time for himself. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online June 2019). harassv. Brit. /ˈharəs/, /həˈras/, U.S. /həˈræs/, /ˈhɛrəs/ Forms: Also 1600s harraze, har(r)asse, 1600s–1700s harrass. Etymology: < French harasser (1562 in Godefroy) ‘to tire or toyle out, to spend or weaken, wearie or weare out by ouertoyling; also, to vex, disquiet, importune, harrie, hurrie, turmoile, torment’ (Cotgrave); perhaps a derivative form of Old French harer to set a dog on. †1. transitive. To wear out, tire out, or exhaust with fatigue, care, trouble, etc. Obsolete or dialect. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > weariness or exhaustion > weary or exhaust [verb (transitive)] wearyc897 tirea1000 travailc1300 forwearya1325 taryc1375 tarc1440 matec1450 break1483 labour1496 overwearya1500 wear?1507 to wear out, forth1525 fatigate1535 stress1540 overtire1558 forwaste1563 to tire out1563 overwear1578 spend1582 out-tire1596 outwear1596 outweary1596 overspend1596 to toil out1596 attediate1603 bejade1620 lassate1623 harassa1626 overtask1628 tax1672 hag1674 trash1685 hatter1687 overtax1692 fatigue1693 to knock up1740 tire to death1740 overfatigue1741 fag1774 outdo1776 to do over1789 to use up1790 jade1798 overdo1817 frazzlea1825 worry1828 to sew up1837 to wear to death1840 to take it (also a lot, too much, etc.) out of (a person)1847 gruel1850 to stump up1853 exhaust1860 finish1864 peter1869 knacker1886 grind1887 tew1893 crease1925 poop1931 raddle1951 a1626 F. Bacon Considerations War with Spain in Wks. (1874) XIV. 483 These troops came to the army but the day before, harassed with a long and wearisome march. 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Harasse..to tire or toyl out, to spend or weaken, weary, or wear out. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 102 When athirst, restrain 'em from the flood: Their Bodies harrass, sink 'em when they run. View more context for this quotation 1713 J. Addison Cato v. i Nature oppress'd, and harrass'd out with care, Sinks down to rest. c1721 W. Gibson True Method dieting Horses x. 159 After they [horses] have been harass'd, and gone through their assigned Tasks..they should be rid gently out of the Manage. 1772 J. Adams tr. A. de Ulloa Voy. S. Amer. (ed. 3) I. 37 They are so harrassed with labour, and their wages so small. †2. To harry, lay waste, devastate, plunder. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > destroy [verb (transitive)] > devastate or lay waste (a place, etc.) harryc893 fordoc900 awesteeOE westeeOE losec950 harrowc1000 destroyc1230 wastec1275 ravishc1325 to lie waste1338 exilea1382 to-wastea1382 unronea1400 desolatea1425 vast1434 fruster?a1513 to lay waste1535 wipe1535 devast1537 depopulate1548 populate1552 forwaste1563 ruinate1564 havoc1575 scourge1576 dispopulate1588 destitute1593 ravage1602 harassa1618 devastate1638 execute1679 to make stroy of1682 to lay in ashes1711 untown1783 hell-rake1830 uncity1850 society > armed hostility > attack > invasion > invade [verb (transitive)] > overrun or harry begoa855 harryc893 war1297 overridea1375 yerna1400 overrun?a1425 overharry1600 harrow1606 harassa1618 sweep1788 jay-hawk1866 a1618 W. Raleigh Life & Death Mahomet (1637) 65 Burnt and harrazed the Countrie. 1665 T. Manley tr. H. Grotius De Rebus Belgicis 261 While they harassed the Fields. 1684 Scanderbeg Redivivus vi. 137 Parties which Harrassed and Plundred and Burnt all the Country. 1710 H. Prideaux Orig. & Right Tithes iv. 198 The Danish War..very cruelly harassed this Land. 3. To trouble or vex by repeated attacks. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > attack > attack [verb (transitive)] > harass or press hard forcec1330 pressc1450 express1490 gall1548 harass1622 1622 F. Bacon Hist. Raigne Henry VII 63 (R.) To harrasse and wearie the English, they did vpon all aduantages set vpon them with their light-horse. 1712 J. Swift Proposal for Eng. Tongue 9 The Britains..daily harassed by cruel Inroads from the Picts. 1783 Polite Trav. 77 The new settlers had..no enemy to harrass them. 1838 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece (new ed.) III. 343 The Argives continued..to harass the Epidaurians with repeated incursions. 1865 F. Parkman Huguenots i, in Pioneers of France in New World 8 The Indians unceasingly harassed their march. 4. To trouble, worry, distress with annoying labour, care, perplexity, importunity, misfortune, etc. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > state of being harassed > harass [verb (transitive)] tawc893 ermec897 swencheOE besetOE bestandc1000 teenOE baitc1175 grieve?c1225 war?c1225 noyc1300 pursuec1300 travailc1300 to work (also do) annoyc1300 tribula1325 worka1325 to hold wakenc1330 chase1340 twistc1374 wrap1380 cumbera1400 harrya1400 vexc1410 encumber1413 inquiet1413 molest?a1425 course1466 persecutec1475 trouble1489 sturt1513 hare1523 hag1525 hale1530 exercise1531 to grate on or upon1532 to hold or keep waking1533 infest1533 scourge1540 molestate1543 pinch1548 trounce1551 to shake upa1556 tire1558 moila1560 pester1566 importune1578 hunt1583 moider1587 bebait1589 commacerate1596 bepester1600 ferret1600 harsell1603 hurry1611 gall1614 betoil1622 weary1633 tribulatea1637 harass1656 dun1659 overharry1665 worry1671 haul1678 to plague the life out of1746 badger1782 hatchel1800 worry1811 bedevil1823 devil1823 victimize1830 frab1848 mither1848 to pester the life out of1848 haik1855 beplague1870 chevy1872 obsede1876 to get on ——1880 to load up with1880 tail-twist1898 hassle1901 heckle1920 snooter1923 hassle1945 to breathe down (the back of) (someone's) neck1946 to bust (a person's) chops1953 noodge1960 monster1967 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Harasse..also to vex, disquiet, etc. 1695 J. Woodward Ess. Nat. Hist. Earth 142 Alarmed and harrassed by Earthquakes. 1738 S. Johnson London 166 The griefs that harass the distress'd. 1854 H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity III. vi. iii. 42 A mind harassed by the perplexing state of affairs. 1856 Ld. Tennyson Maud (rev. ed.) xix. iii, in Maud & Other Poems (new ed.) 65 Vext with lawyers and harass'd with debt. in extended use.1737 W. Whiston tr. Josephus Antiq. Jews i. i, in tr. Josephus Genuine Wks. 6 When it [sc. the ground] should be harassed by their labour, it should bring forth some of its fruits. 5. technical. To scrape or rub. ΚΠ 1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) III. 93 To soften the skins after dyeing, they are harassed by a knife, the point of which is curved upwards. Derivatives ˈharassed adj. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > weariness or exhaustion > [adjective] wearyc825 asadc1306 ateyntc1325 attaintc1325 recrayed1340 methefula1350 for-wearya1375 matea1375 taintc1380 heavy1382 fortireda1400 methefula1400 afoundered?a1425 tewedc1440 travailedc1440 wearisomec1460 fatigate1471 defatigatec1487 tired1488 recreant1490 yolden?1507 fulyeit?a1513 traiked?a1513 tavert1535 wearied1538 fatigated1552 awearya1555 forwearied1562 overtired1567 spenta1568 done1575 awearied1577 stank1579 languishinga1586 bankrupt?1589 fordone1590 spent1591 overwearied1592 overworn1592 outworn1597 half-dead1601 back-broken1603 tiry1611 defatigated1612 dog-wearya1616 overweary1617 exhaust1621 worn-out1639 embossed1651 outspent1652 exhausted1667 beaten1681 bejaded1687 harassed1693 jaded1693 lassate1694 defeata1732 beat out1758 fagged1764 dog-tired1770 fessive1773 done-up1784 forjeskit1786 ramfeezled1786 done-over1789 fatigued1791 forfoughten1794 worn-up1812 dead1813 out-burnta1821 prostrate1820 dead beat1822 told out1822 bone-tireda1825 traiky1825 overfatigued1834 outwearied1837 done like (a) dinner1838 magged1839 used up1839 tuckered outc1840 drained1855 floored1857 weariful1862 wappered1868 bushed1870 bezzled1875 dead-beaten1875 down1885 tucked up1891 ready (or fit) to drop1892 buggered-up1893 ground-down1897 played1897 veal-bled1899 stove-up1901 trachled1910 ragged1912 beat up1914 done in1917 whacked1919 washy1922 pooped1928 shattered1930 punchy1932 shagged1932 shot1939 whipped1940 buggered1942 flaked (out)1942 fucked1949 sold-out1958 wiped1958 burnt out1959 wrung out1962 juiced1965 hanging1971 zonked1972 maxed1978 raddled1978 zoned1980 cream crackered1983 the mind > emotion > suffering > state of being harassed > [adjective] slatc1300 bested1303 forswonga1400 vexed1440 plagued1563 molested1580 bustled1602 grieved1627 travailed1644 over-troubled1646 harassed1693 baited1720 badgered1794 gêné1806 bedevilled1827 besieged1866 1693 C. Dryden tr. Juvenal in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires vii. 137 Whether he should..into Quarters put his harrass'd Men. 1757 G. Shelvocke, Jr. Shelvocke's Voy. round World (ed. 2) vii. 217 Not..a seat whereon to rest our harrassed limbs. 1884 L. J. Jennings in Croker Papers I. xii. 359 His successor..passed a harassed life. ˈharassedly adv. ΚΠ 1891 Harper's Weekly 19 Sept. 710/2 On the edge of life, fighting anxiously, harassedly, for a foothold. ˈharassing adj. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > weariness or exhaustion > [adjective] > causing weariness or exhaustion wearyc1315 soakingc1440 tired1548 moilingc1566 wearisome1593 tiring1594 overtiring1598 tiresome1598 defatigating1634 defatigable1654 fatigable1656 fatiguing1708 fatiguesomea1734 jading1766 fagging1787 wearying1798 exhausting18.. taversome1808 harassing1833 killing1850 trashing1861 trachling1902 the mind > emotion > suffering > state of being harassed > [adjective] > harassing griefa1300 grievous13.. travailinga1450 importunatea1500 unportunatea1533 importunable1566 infestive1570 infestuous1593 plaguey1595 infestious1597 importunous1598 obsidious1615 vexatious?1626 pestifying1716 harassing1833 obsidional1879 infesting1881 obseding1885 1833 H. Martineau Berkeley the Banker i. vii. 137 You must have had..an extremely harassing day, Sir. 1868 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest II. ix. 389 The harassing attacks of the nimble Welsh. ˈharassingly adv. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > state of being harassed > [adverb] grievously1303 teenfullya1375 griefc1400 infestuously1604 on, upon the back of1608 pesteringly1657 harassingly1822 1822 W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. 99 290 The roads became harassingly bad. 1886 Sat. Rev. 20 Mar. 417 Schumann literature..has become almost harassingly voluminous. ˈharassable adj. capable of being harassed. ΚΠ 1882 J. Hawthorne Fortune's Fool xiv, in Macmillan's Mag. Mar. 345/1 She..knew where his harassable points were and how to irritate them. ˈharasser n. one who or that which harasses. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > state of being harassed > [noun] > one who or that which harasses pursuera1382 running sore1453 pesta1522 gall1537 grater1549 plaguer1598 afflicter1600 inflicter1605 a thorn in the flesh or side1611 incubus1648 cumber1669 harasser1707 scunner1796 tin kettle1796 pester1810 pesterer1824 baitera1845 pestilence1886 nudnik1916 1707 London Gaz. No. 4322/1 Fire and Sword, the too too fatal Harassers of these bordering Places. 1801 G. Ellis Specimens Early Eng. Poets (rev. ed.) I. 23 Unnumbered harassers, Of the fleet and Scotch. ˈharassery n. harassing action.Apparently an isolated use. ΚΠ 1834 J. W. Croker in Croker Papers 10 Dec. (1884) II Well may you talk of ‘harassing cares’. The first that I dread for you are the personal harasseries of individual pretenders. Draft additions August 2001 transitive. To subject (an individual or group) to unwarranted (and now esp. unlawful) physical or psychological intimidation, usually persistently over a period; to persecute. Also more generally: to beleaguer, pester. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > hostile action or attack > make an attack upon [verb (transitive)] > persecute seekc825 baitc1175 war?c1225 pursuec1300 chase1340 course1466 persecutea1475 suea1500 pickc1550 pursuit1563 prosecute1588 exagitate1602 dragoon1689 harass1788 martyr1851 dragonnade1881 witch-hunt1919 vamp1970 the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > quality of being intimidating > intimidate or bully [verb (transitive)] awec1225 bashc1375 palla1393 argh1393 formengea1400 matea1400 boasta1522 quail1526 brag1551 appale1563 browbeat1581 adaw1590 overdare1590 dastard1593 strike1598 disdare1612 cowa1616 dare1619 daw1631 bounce1640 dastardize1645 intimidate1646 hector1664 out-hector1672 huff1674 bully1685 harass1788 bullyraga1790 major1829 haze1851 bullock1875 to push (someone) around1900 to put the frighteners in, on1958 psych1963 vibe1979 1788 M. Wollstonecraft Mary v. 37 This man made a private fortune by harassing the tenants of the person to whom he was deputy. a1817 J. Austen Northanger Abbey (1818) I. iii. 33 I know exactly what you will say: Friday, went to the Lower Rooms..; was strangely harassed by a queer, half-witted man who would make me dance with him, and distressed me by his nonsense. View more context for this quotation 1855 Househ. Words 8 Dec. 442/2 He harassed me with questions about the book as pertinaciously as any senate-house examiner. 1890 U.S. Rep. (Supreme Court) 133 625 He is allowed..[to] save the mortgagor..from being harassed for the payment of the debt. 1959 U.S. Rep. (Supreme Court) 355 133 The plant manager was followed by the strikers each time he left the plant; he was also harassed at night..by numerous anonymous telephone calls. 1977 J. Burke Jowitt's Dict. Eng. Law (ed. 2) I. 890/2 A person commits an offence if..he harasses the other with demands for payment which..are calculated to subject him or members of his family or household to alarm, distress or humiliation. 1984 S. Townsend Growing Pains Adrian Mole 18 Mitzi's owner, a Mrs. Carmichael, said that if our dog ‘continued harassing Mitzi’ she would be forced to report our dog to the police. 1993 Time 18 Jan. 45/3 Since 1990 at least 28 states have passed ‘stalking laws’ that make it a crime to threaten, follow or harass someone. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1667v.a1618
随便看	to stout it out to stout out to stow away to stow down to stow one's gab to straddle the market to straight a rope to straighten out to straighten up to strain a metaphor to strain a person to one's bosom, heart to strain a point to strain after to strain at to strain at stool to strain back to strain every nerve to strain formerly also draw upon the start to strain one's milk to strain or pinch courtesy to strain to do to strain to one's bosom, heart to strain up to strain upon the start to straiten a person's quarters

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