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Harassed   /hərˈæst/   Listen
Harassed

adjective
1.
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)
1.
Annoy continually or chronically.  Synonyms: beset, chevvy, chevy, chivvy, chivy, harry, hassle, molest, plague, provoke.  "This man harasses his female co-workers"
2.
Exhaust by attacking repeatedly.



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"Harassed" Quotes from Famous Books



... or robbery, useful when this retributive process could be successfully carried forward. Kings and emperors naturally were more alive to the usefulness of subjects who could gather and yield money; but edicts issued to protect "the King's Jews" equally with the King's game from being harassed and hunted by the commonalty were only slight mitigations to the deplorable lot of a race held to be under the divine curse, and had little force after the Crusades began. As the slave-holders in the United States counted the curse on Ham a justification of negro slavery, ...
— Impressions of Theophrastus Such • George Eliot
... that in our vision feels Again the venom that we flung, Transfigured to the world reveals The vigilance to which we clung. Shrewd, hallowed, harassed, and among The mysteries that are untold, The face we see was never young, Nor could it ever have ...
— The Little Book of Modern Verse • Jessie B. Rittenhouse
... feverish; her eyes were large and deep and perilously bright, her temples and cheeks cruelly thin. But what hurt him most were not the marks of illness and weakness. It was the harassed ...
— The Visioning • Susan Glaspell
... forth from his bed chamber, harassed and anxious. He had slept little during the night, and the weariness of age would make itself felt, after a season of excitement like that ...
— Mabel's Mistake • Ann S. Stephens
... the other hand, had been so harassed backward and forward, that to him certainty was relief; it was a great matter to be no longer called upon to decide. His mother had said, "Part," and now Christie had said, "Part"; at least the affair was taken out of his hands, and his first feeling ...
— Christie Johnstone • Charles Reade


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