- Word History
|part of speech:
||harassed, harasses, harassing
||to trouble or make threats against someone again and again.
The police harass young people who hang out in the park.
- similar words:
- annoy, bother, irritate, persecute, ride, trouble, worry
||harassingly (adv.), harassment (n.)
may come from an early French word that means "to excite the hunting dogs."