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Harassment

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Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. Persistent attacks and criticism causing worry and distress.

n. Deliberate pestering or annoying.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The act of harassing, or state of being harassed; worry; annoyance; anxiety.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The act of harassing, or the state of being harassed; vexation; that which harasses or vexes.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. the act of tormenting by continued persistent attacks and criticism

n. a feeling of intense annoyance caused by being tormented

Word Usage

"Of particular concern is the expansion of the term harassment to include “harassment by communication,” which means a person can be convicted on the basis of spoken words alone.19"

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

annoyance vexation chafe

Form

verbal harassment sexual harassment workplace harassment

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

worry annoyance anxiety torment molestation

Same Context

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