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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Harass \Har"ass\, noun
1. Devastation; waste. [Obs.] --Milton.
2. Worry; harassment. [R.] --Byron.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Harass \Har"ass\ (h[a^]r"as or h[.a]*r[a^]s"), verb (used with an object) [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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
harass
verb
1: annoy continually or chronically; "He is known to harry his staff when he is overworked"; "This man harasses his female co-workers" [syn: {hassle}, {harry}, {chivy}, {chivvy}, {chevy}, {chevvy}, {beset}, {plague}, {molest}, {provoke}]
2: exhaust by attacking repeatedly; "harass the enemy"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
191 Moby Thesaurus words for "harass": abuse, afflict, aggravate, aggrieve, ail, annoy, badger, bait, be at, be the matter, beat, bedevil, befoul, beleaguer, beset, besiege, bewitch, blight, blockade, bludgeon, bluster, bluster out of, bother, bristle, browbeat, brown off, bug, bulldoze, bully, bullyrag, burn out, burn up, chevy, chivy, complicate matters, concern, condemn, corrupt, cow, crucify, curse, damage, debilitate, defile, demoralize, deprave, despoil, destroy, devil, disadvantage, discommode, discompose, disserve, distemper, distress, disturb, do a mischief, do evil, do ill, do in, do up, do wrong, do wrong by, dog, doom, dragoon, encircle, encompass, enervate, envelop, envenom, exasperate, exercise, exhaust, fag, fag out, fash, fatigue, flag, foray, frazzle, fret, get, get into trouble, gnaw, gripe, harm, harry, haunt, heckle, hector, hex, hound, huff, hunt, hurt, impair, inconvenience, infect, injure, intimidate, invest, irk, irritate, jade, jinx, knock out, knock up, lay siege to, maltreat, maraud, menace, miff, mistreat, molest, nag, needle, nettle, nudzh, oppress, outrage, overfatigue, overstrain, overtire, overweary, pain, peeve, perplex, persecute, perturb, pester, pick at, pick on, pique, plague, play havoc with, play hob with, pluck the beard, poison, pollute, poop, poop out, pother, prejudice, prostrate, provoke, pursue, put out, put to it, puzzle, ride, rile, roil, ruffle, savage, scathe, soften up, strain, stress, surround, systematically terrorize, taint, tease, terrorize, threaten, tire, tire out, tire to death, torment, torture, trouble, try, try the patience, tucker, tweak the nose, use up, vex, victimize, violate, weaken, wear, wear down, wear on, wear out, weary, wilt, wind, worry, wound, wreak havoc on, wrong
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