Crossword clues for harassing
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Harass \Har"ass\ (h[a^]r"as or h[.a]*r[a^]s"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Harassed (h[a^]r"ast or h[.a]*r[a^]st"); p. pr. & vb. n. Harassing.] [F. harasser; cf. OF. harace a basket made of cords, harace, harasse,a very heavy and large shield; or harer to set (a dog) on.] To fatigue; to tire with repeated and exhausting efforts; esp., to weary by importunity, teasing, or fretting; to cause to endure excessive burdens or anxieties; -- sometimes followed by out.
[Troops] harassed with a long and wearisome march.
--Bacon.
Nature oppressed and harass'd out with care.
--Addison.
Vext with lawyers and harass'd with debt.
--Tennyson.
Syn: To weary; jade; tire; perplex; distress; tease; worry; disquiet; chafe; gall; annoy; irritate; plague; vex; molest; trouble; disturb; torment.
Wiktionary
n. harassment vb. (present participle of harass English)
WordNet
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Usage examples of "harassing".
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.
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.
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.
First, because it makes their tattling more effective and more harassing, since we cannot doubt what they tell us.
She hated the police-issue Wounder and had been harassing him to requisition a more powerful gun for her.
He had later claimed that it was an unintentional error and he had been given the benefit of the doubt, since it was not impossible that after a day of harassing visits he should have mistaken the ampoule, all the more so considering the semi-darkness pervading the sick room.
The commandos of Douthwaite, Liebenberg, and Van der Merwe seem to have been occupied in harassing the column during their progress through the Gatsrand range.
The morning brings cares, and although with rebraced energies and renovated strength, then is the season that we are best qualified to struggle with the harassing brood, still Ferdinand Armine, the involved son of a ruined race, seldom rose from his couch, seldom recalled consciousness after repose, without a pang.
We were thinking that Garrett kept harassing and scaring him until he snapped.
He trembled at the recollection of the recent race between them -- the harassings and skirmishings night and day -- the sleepless struggles, and unintermitting alarms.
Colonel Muammar Baraka who had been harassing the industrialized nations of the world by jacking up the price of their oil, was out of gas.
It was well that Dolley and jeremy could share the humor of events as well as their serious political implications, for he was struggling with harassing problems.
Harassing fire for the most part, although a Hudathan trooper had been wounded the day before, and a LaNorian street sweeper had been killed by a spent round.