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hassle
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun hassle has 2 senses
- hassle(n = noun.event) bother, fuss, trouble - an angry disturbance; "he didn't want to make a fuss"; "they had labor trouble"; "a spot of bother" is a kind of disturbance, perturbation
- hassle(n = noun.act) dogfight, rough-and-tumble, scuffle, tussle - disorderly fighting; Array is a kind of combat, fight, fighting, scrap
Derived form verb hassle1
Verb hassle has 1 sense
- hassle(v = verb.emotion) beset, chevvy, chevy, chivvy, chivy, harass, harry, molest, plague, provoke - annoy continually or chronically; "He is known to harry his staff when he is overworked"; "This man harasses his female co-workers" is one way to annoy, bother, chafe, devil, get at, get to, gravel, irritate, nark, nettle, rag, rile, vex
Derived form noun hassle1
Sample sentence:
Sam cannot hassle Sue
CIDE DICTIONARY
hassle, n.
- An inconvenience caused by difficulties encountered trying to accomplish a task; as, finding a parking place in midtown is always a hassle. [WordNet 1.5]
- disorderly fighting; an angry dispute or disturbance. [WordNet 1.5]
hassle, v. i.
- to dispute or quarrel, often over petty disagreements. [PJC]
- To expend excessive time and energy trying to accomplish a task. [PJC]
hassle, v. t.
to repeatedly annoy; as, He is known to hassle his staff when he is overworked. [WordNet 1.5]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
hassle, n. & v. colloq.
--n.
1 a prolonged trouble or inconvenience.
2 an argument or involved struggle.
--v.
1 tr. harass, annoy; cause trouble to.
2 intr. argue, quarrel.
--n.
1 a prolonged trouble or inconvenience.
2 an argument or involved struggle.
--v.
1 tr. harass, annoy; cause trouble to.
2 intr. argue, quarrel.
Etymology
20th c.: orig. dial.
THESAURUS
hassle
ado, agonize, altercation, anarchy, apologetics, apologia, apology, argue, argufy, argument, argumentation, bandy words, barney, battle, beef, bicker, bickering, bother, brawl, broil, brouhaha, buffet, bug, bump heads, carp at, casuistry, cavil, chaos, choplogic, clamor, commotion, confusion, contend, contention, contest, controversy, cross swords, cut and thrust, defense, discept, disputation, dispute, disturbance, donnybrook, donnybrook fair, dustup, embroilment, endeavor, essay, fabulous formless darkness, fight, flyting, foofaraw, foul-up, fracas, free-for-all, fret at, fuss, fuss at, give and take, grunt and sweat, have it out, helter-skelter, henpeck, hubbub, huff and puff, hurly-burly, join issue, knock-down-and-drag-out, license, litigation, lock horns, logomachize, logomachy, make a row, melee, miff, misrule, mix-up, moot, morass, muddle, nag, nibble at, niggle, paper war, passage of arms, peck at, pell-mell, pester, pettifog, pick at, pick on, plead, polemic, polemicize, polemics, polemize, pother, quibble, racket, rampage, rhubarb, riot, rough-and-tumble, roughhouse, row, ruckus, ruction, rumpus, run-in, scramble, scrap, screw-up, scuffle, set-to, shindy, snafu, spar, squabble, stir, strive, striving, struggle, take sides, thrash out, to-do, trial, trouble, try, try conclusions, tumult, turmoil, tussle, undertaking, uproar, verbal engagement, war of words, whirl, wrangle, wrangling, wrestle, yap at
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