What is "harass"

Usage examples of "harass".

With their retreat thus cut off, with General Platt attacking from the north, harassed by patriots, machine-gunned and bombed from the air, the Italian resistance could not last long.

Though it was something all the Bridgers did from time to time, it was precisely the kind of thing Byle Bander would make an issue of, or harass her about until she would be heartily sorry for having done it.

Her private war continued, but the objective shifted from harassing the Slavers Bod to freeing as many slaves as possible.

On the west coast British, American, and French forces were continually in action, bombarding and harassing the enemy, driving off persistent attacks by light craft and midget submarines, and clearing mines in the liberated ports.

In a fine temper, he galloped to Mackintosh land and released himself by harassing crofters, scattering herds, and causing mischief wherever he could.

They fled in real or affected disorder, engaged the Palmyrenians in a laborious pursuit, harassed them by a desultory combat, and at length discomfited this impenetrable but unwieldy body of cavalry.

Austrian general harassed their foraging parties, fell upon different quarters of their army in the night, and kept them in continual alarm.

To the harassed monk who scurried up to her and asked her business, she had blubbered about her dying father who had gone missingstomped off into the night to diewho she had heard might be here with these angels of mercy, and the monk was mollified and a little puffed at his goodliness and he told Derkhan that she might stay and search.

The flight and pursuit, so harassing, so hot, Have drifted all combatants far from the spot: And through the sparse woodlands, and over the plain, Lie gorily scattered, the wounded and slain.

She had also the misfortune to be harassed by her confessor, who made her foretaste all the terrors of death.

While these troubles were harassing me, I dismissed all my workgirls, who had always been a great expense, and replaced them with workmen and some of my servants.

Instead of hazarding a general engagement against regular troops, in which they could have no prospect of success, they resolved to weary them out by maintaining a kind of petty war in separate parties, to alarm and harass the English with hard duty in a sultry climate, where they were but indifferently supplied with provisions and refreshments.

What was the point of a receptionist, if any officer on the base could harass me when - Well, Tolliver was my aide, and could bypass the middy in the outer office.

Evolutionary Agents who had become public symbols of neoteny continued to be harassed.

I got the impression that Pacal was used to being harassed about his card, and I felt a vague sense of guilt.