Synonyms for harassing
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : huh-ras, har-uhs |
| Phonetic Transcription : həˈræs, ˈhær əs |
Top 10 synonyms for harassing Other synonyms for the word harassing
- annoy
- attack
- bait
- bedevil
- beleaguer
- bother
- bug
- bullyrag
- despoil
- devil
- distress
- disturb
- eat
- exasperate
- exhaust
- fatigue
- foray
- get to
- give a bad time
- give a hard time
- gnaw
- harry
- irk
- irritate
- jerk around
- macerate
- maraud
- noodge
- pain
- perplex
- plague
- rattle one's cage
- ride
- strain
- stress
- tire
- trouble
- try
- vex
- weary
- work on
- worry
Définition of harassing
Origin :- 1610s, from French harasser "tire out, vex," possibly from Old French harer "set a dog on," and perhaps blended with Old French harier "to harry, draw, drag" [Barnhart]. Originally "to lay waste, devastate," sense of "distress" is from 1650s. Related: Harassed; harassing.
- verb badger
- Peremptorily I dismissed these harassing and frightful doubts.
- Extract from : « The Room in the Dragon Volant » by J. Sheridan LeFanu
- After all, Correy had no more than put into words some fears which had been harassing me.
- Extract from : « Priestess of the Flame » by Sewell Peaslee Wright
- To Hondscio then was that harassing deadly, his fall there was fated.
- Extract from : « Beowulf » by Anonymous
- They are wandering about harassing villages, plundering, and making slaves.
- Extract from : « In the Mahdi's Grasp » by George Manville Fenn
- Toil was unknown; the toil that we know, menial, degrading and harassing.
- Extract from : « Mizora: A Prophecy » by Mary E. Bradley
- They are the tribe who have been harassing our frontier for the past ninety years.
- Extract from : « Ben Comee » by M. J. (Michael Joseph) Canavan
- It was for him a moment of deep and harassing emotion and keen anxiety.
- Extract from : « The Martian » by George Du Maurier
- The last moments were the most harassing and heartbreaking of all.
- Extract from : « Poor Folk » by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- All this was occasioned by a harassing affair which I have had to do with here.
- Extract from : « The Life of Friedrich Schiller » by Thomas Carlyle
- All this must have been harassing, but it did serve to pass away the time.
- Extract from : « The Angel and the Author - and Others » by Jerome K. Jerome
Antonyms for harassing
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