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harassment
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun harassment has 2 senses
- harassment(n = noun.feeling) torment - a feeling of intense annoyance caused by being tormented; "so great was his harassment that he wanted to destroy his tormentors" is a kind of annoyance, chafe, vexation
- harassment(n = noun.act) molestation - the act of tormenting by continued persistent attacks and criticism; Array is a kind of mistreatment
has particulars: baiting, badgering, bedevilment, torment, worrying, sexual harassment, ribbing, tantalization, tease, teasing, witch-hunt
Derived form verb harass1
CIDE DICTIONARY
harassment, n.
The act of harassing, or state of being harassed; worry; annoyance; anxiety. [1913 Webster]
"Little harassments which I am led to suspect do occasionally molest the most fortunate."
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THESAURUS
harassment
McCarthyism, aggravation, annoyance, annoyingness, bad news, bedevilment, bore, bother, botheration, bothering, bothersomeness, crashing bore, devilment, difficulty, disturbance, dogging, downer, drag, exasperation, fretting, harrying, headache, hounding, irking, irksomeness, irritation, molestation, nuisance, oppression, persecution, perturbation, peskiness, pest, pestiferousness, plaguesomeness, problem, provocation, provoking, provokingness, red-baiting, tiresomeness, torment, tormenting, trial, trouble, troublesomeness, vexation, vexatiousness, vexing, victimization, wearisomeness, witch-hunt, witch-hunting, worriedness, worries and cares, worriment, worrisomeness, worry, worrying
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