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Grammar : Noun

Spell : huh-ras-muh nt, har-uh s-muh nt

Phonetic Transcription : həˈræs mənt, ˈhær əs mənt

Definition of harassment

Origin : 1753, from harass + -ment.

noun badgering

Example sentences :

Following our policy of harassment, the scouts destroyed her escort ships.
Extract from : « The Butterfly Kiss » by Arthur Dekker Savage

These early years were full of anxiety and harassment to Bienville.
Extract from : « Makers and Romance of Alabama History » by B. F. Riley

As the only deliverance from this harassment, Pizarro adopted a new policy.
Extract from : « The Spanish Pioneers » by Charles F. Lummis

Secular officials and laymen active in church affairs also suffered execution, imprisonment, and harassment.
Extract from : « Area Handbook for Albania » by Eugene K. Keefe

The exasperation of the southern Idaho communities, under continual Indian harassment, became extreme.
Extract from : « The Washington Historical Quarterly, Volume V, 1914 » by Various

The symptoms of harassment, suspense, and irritation which had beset him for several months past, were no longer visible.
Extract from : « Dust » by Julian Hawthorne

He had given himself up to a contemplation of possibilities as an escape from harassment.
Extract from : « Nobody's Child » by Elizabeth Dejeans

And Miss Jeffries, for all her harassment of suspense, was no woeful object in a vivacious blue evening frock with silvery gleams.
Extract from : « The Fortieth Door » by Mary Hastings Bradley

This harassment first beset him at the top of the rim when he was crawling over it like a fly out of an empty teacup.
Extract from : « Ladies and Gentlemen » by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb

On the forts and obstructions in the river, Washington mainly counted to complete the harassment of Philadelphia.
Extract from : « The Student's Life of Washington; Condensed from the Larger Work of Washington Irving » by Washington Irving

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