MEANING
To repeatedly subject someone to unwanted attacks, pressure, or distressing attention.
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Words that belong together
- harass a neighbor
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The anonymous caller harassed the household.
Guards harassed the prisoners nightly.
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Word forms
- Base
- harass
- Past tense
- harassed
- Past participle
- harassed
- Present participle
- harassing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- harass
- Present continuous
- am/is/are harassing
- Present perfect
- have/has harassed
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been harassing
- Past
- harassed
- Past continuous
- was/were harassing
- Past perfect
- had harassed
- Past perfect continuous
- had been harassing
- Future
- will harass
- Future continuous
- will be harassing
- Future perfect
- will have harassed
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been harassing
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Usage notes
Primary category: horror. Forms: harass; harasses; harassed; harassed; harassing Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: harasses.
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