The Collaborative International Dictionary
Molest \Mo*lest"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Molested; p. pr. & vb. n. Molesting.] [F. molester, L. molestare, fr. molestus troublesome, fr. moles a heavy mass, load, burden. See 3d Mole.] To trouble; to disturb; to render uneasy; to interfere with; to vex.
They have molested the church with needless opposition.
--Hooker.
Syn: To trouble; disturb; incommode; inconvenience; annoy; vex; tease.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of molest English)
Usage examples of "molesting".
It also came out in court that Knowlton had spent time in a mental hospital in Traverse City, Michigan, after molesting a seven-year-old girl.
It is possible for a pedophile to go through his whole life without molesting a child, even having a sexual relationship with an adult, satisfying his urges in other ways: fantasizing about children, masturbating with dolls, or perhaps picking an adult sexual partner who is childlike in some way.
None but a brute could ever think of molesting thee in thy worship, or in doing aught that thy opinions render necessary or proper.
Supply, pulling down a regular paycheck, to all intents and purposes a model citizen, and then he gets arrested for molesting a twelve-year-old girl on the way home from school.
Before he moved to the Park, Leon Duffy was arrested and jailed for molesting an eleven-year-old girl here in Anchorage.
If your grandfather was molesting you, then your dad caught him in the act and Kirkland murdered him to keep him quiet.
William Kirkland, respected surgeon and paragon of virtue, could be tiptoeing around his antebellum mansion molesting his daughters was virtually unthinkable forty years ago.
Most of these guys warm up molesting their own before they start in with the kids of strangers, you know.
Though they fondled Miss Thomm, Zachary Shaw even going so far as to finger her vagina, they avoided fully molesting her.