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"ref": "1829, Juvenal, “Satire XII”, in William Smart, transl., Juvenal and Persius, Literally Translated for the Use of Students, London: […] [Richard Gilbert] for Whittaker, Treacher, & Co. […], →OCLC, page 125",
"text": "For it is a stout calf, ripe for the temples and altar [to be sacrificed], and to be sprinkled with wine; who is now ashamed to draw the dugs of his mother, and who harasseth the oaks with his budding horn.",
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"ref": "1895, “Saint Guthlac. A.”, in Israel Gollancz, editor, The Exeter Book, an Anthology of Anglo-Saxon Poetry […], part I (Poems I–VIII), London: [F]or the Early English Text Society, by Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., […], →OCLC, part I, page 109, lines 81–88",
"text": "Some who dwell in wildernesses, / who seek and occupy, by their own wills, homes in dark caverns, these await / the heavenly dwelling-place; he who grudgeth them life, / oft bringeth hateful terror upon them; / sometimes he showeth them horror, sometimes vain glory; / the wily murderer hath power of both, / and harasseth these lonely-dwellers; […]\nA modern English translation of a 10th-century Old English text.",
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{
"word": "harry"
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"word": "hassle"
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"ref": "2005, “Compressed air, wooden clappers, and other non-traditional methods for dispersing European starlings from an urban roost.”, in The Eleventh Wildlife Damage Management Conference",
"text": "In February 2004, we developed a technique using compressed air to physically and audibly harass the birds. […] One person slowly (< 5 mph) drove a pick-up truck through the airport terminal at dusk while the second person sat on a bench in the truck bed and directed the compressed air from the pipe into the canopy to harass starlings attempting to enter the roost site.",
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"To annoy (someone) frequently or systematically; to pester.",
"(specifically) To persistently bother (someone, or a group of people) physically or psychologically when such behaviour is illegal and/or unwanted, especially over an extended period."
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"_dis1": "4 83 2 8 3",
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "to persistently bother (someone, or a group of people) physically or psychologically when such behaviour is illegal and/or unwanted, especially over an extended period",
"word": "molestadi"
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"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "to persistently bother (someone, or a group of people) physically or psychologically when such behaviour is illegal and/or unwanted, especially over an extended period",
"word": "ĉagrenadi"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to persistently bother (someone, or a group of people) physically or psychologically when such behaviour is illegal and/or unwanted, especially over an extended period",
"word": "ahdistella"
},
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to persistently bother (someone, or a group of people) physically or psychologically when such behaviour is illegal and/or unwanted, especially over an extended period",
"word": "häiritä"
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"code": "fr",
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"sense": "to persistently bother (someone, or a group of people) physically or psychologically when such behaviour is illegal and/or unwanted, especially over an extended period",
"word": "harceler"
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"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to persistently bother (someone, or a group of people) physically or psychologically when such behaviour is illegal and/or unwanted, especially over an extended period",
"word": "whakatīwhetawheta"
}
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"text": "To harass good people is no different than speaking ill of them.",
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"ref": "1761, Thomas Boston, “State II. Namely, the State of Nature or of Entire Depravation. Head I. The Sinfulness of Man’s Natural State. [Of the Corruption of the Will.]”, in Human Nature in Its Four-fold State […], 12th edition, Edinburgh: […] David Gray […], →OCLC, page 80",
"text": "The ſoul that dies this death, is like a loving wife matched with a rigorous huſband: ſhe does what ſhe can to pleaſe him, yet he is never pleaſed; but toſſeth, haraſſeth, and beats her, till ſhe break her heart, and death ſets her free: […]",
"type": "quotation"
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"ref": "1831, William French, George Skinner, transl., A New Translation of the Proverbs of Solomon from the Original Hebrew […], Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] J. Smith printer to the University; London: John Murray […], →OCLC, Proverbs XI:29, page 37",
"text": "He, who harasseth his household, shall inherit the wind; / And the fool shall be the servant of the wise in heart.",
"type": "quotation"
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"ref": "1839, Martin F[arquhar] Tupper, “Of Discretion”, in Proverbial Philosophy: A Book of Thoughts and Arguments, Originally Treated, 3rd edition, London: Joseph Rickerby, […], →OCLC, pages 147–148",
"text": "Zeal without judgment is an evil, though it be zeal unto good; / […] / By a shoulder to the wheel downhill harasseth the labouring beast, / And where an obstruction were needed, will harm by an ill judged thrusting-on.",
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"To put excessive burdens upon (someone); to subject (someone) to anxieties."
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"_dis1": "2 2 90 1 4",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to put excessive burdens upon (someone)",
"word": "kwellen"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 2 90 1 4",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to put excessive burdens upon (someone)",
"word": "vervolgen"
},
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"_dis1": "2 2 90 1 4",
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "to put excessive burdens upon (someone)",
"word": "troŝarĝi"
},
{
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to put excessive burdens upon (someone)",
"word": "vainota"
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"code": "fr",
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"sense": "to put excessive burdens upon (someone)",
"word": "harceler"
},
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"_dis1": "2 2 90 1 4",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to put excessive burdens upon (someone)",
"word": "quälen"
},
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"_dis1": "2 2 90 1 4",
"code": "de",
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"sense": "to put excessive burdens upon (someone)",
"word": "verfolgen"
},
{
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"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to put excessive burdens upon (someone)",
"word": "assillare"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 2 90 1 4",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to put excessive burdens upon (someone)",
"word": "incalzare"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 2 90 1 4",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to put excessive burdens upon (someone)",
"word": "tartassare"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 2 90 1 4",
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "to put excessive burdens upon (someone)",
"word": "sàraich"
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"ref": "1897, “Fourth Discourse. Jnana-Yoga.”, in Alladi Mahadeva Sastry, transl., The Bhagavad Gita with the Commentary of Sri Sankaracharya […], 7th edition, Madras, Tamil Nadu: Samata Books, published 1977, →OCLC, page 119",
"text": "The tradition of this Yoga has now for a long time been broken here, O Arjuna, who harassest thy foes, like the sun, by the heat of thy prowess.",
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"To trouble (someone, or a group of people) through repeated military-style attacks."
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"word": "ahdistella"
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"_dis1": "4 11 2 81 2",
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"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to trouble (someone, or a group of people) through repeated military-style attacks",
"word": "häiritä"
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"_dis1": "4 11 2 81 2",
"code": "fi",
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"sense": "to trouble (someone, or a group of people) through repeated military-style attacks",
"word": "vainota"
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"ref": "1812, John Mason Good, “Part II. First Series of Controversy.”, in The Book of Job, Literally Translated from the Original Hebrew, and Restored to Its Natural Arrangement: […], London: […] [F]or Black, Parry, and Co. […], by R. Watts, Broxbourn Press, →OCLC, Job XIV:19–20",
"text": "As the waters wear to pieces the stones, / As their overflowings sweep the soil from the land,— / So consumest thou the hope of man; / Thou harassest him continually till he perish; / Thou weariest out his frame, and despatchest him.",
"type": "quotation"
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"ref": "1825, Jedediah Cleishbotham [pseudonym], “Substance of Some Traditions Respecting Grimmfer the Wizard”, in New Landlord’s Tales; or, Jedediah in the South. […], volume II, London: […] [S. Gosnell] for T[homas] Hookham, […], →OCLC, chapter I, pages 126–127",
"text": "'[T]is true, that he neither harasseth his vassals from morn to eve by hard labour and exaction, nor committeth them to the dungeon, when they can no longer work nor pay. But to knights of our calling, Monsieur Robichon, he is as ill disposed as the worst of them:— […]\nBy an unknown author in imitation of Walter Scott’s Tales of My Landlord (1816–1832).",
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"Often followed by out: to fatigue or tire (someone) with exhausting and repeated efforts."
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"(obsolete) Often followed by out: to fatigue or tire (someone) with exhausting and repeated efforts."
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"tags": [
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"_dis1": "39 39 3 3 16",
"code": "bn",
"lang": "Bengali",
"roman": "jalaton kora",
"sense": "to annoy (someone) frequently or systematically — see also pester",
"word": "জ্বালাতন করা"
},
{
"_dis1": "39 39 3 3 16",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "bezpokoja",
"sense": "to annoy (someone) frequently or systematically — see also pester",
"word": "безпокоя"
},
{
"_dis1": "39 39 3 3 16",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "draznja",
"sense": "to annoy (someone) frequently or systematically — see also pester",
"word": "дразня"
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{
"_dis1": "39 39 3 3 16",
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "to annoy (someone) frequently or systematically — see also pester",
"word": "fastiguejar"
},
{
"_dis1": "39 39 3 3 16",
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "to annoy (someone) frequently or systematically — see also pester",
"word": "molestar"
},
{
"_dis1": "39 39 3 3 16",
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "to annoy (someone) frequently or systematically — see also pester",
"word": "vexar"
},
{
"_dis1": "39 39 3 3 16",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "to annoy (someone) frequently or systematically — see also pester",
"word": "騷擾"
},
{
"_dis1": "39 39 3 3 16",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "sāorǎo",
"sense": "to annoy (someone) frequently or systematically — see also pester",
"word": "骚扰"
},
{
"_dis1": "39 39 3 3 16",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to annoy (someone) frequently or systematically — see also pester",
"word": "pesten"
},
{
"_dis1": "39 39 3 3 16",
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "to annoy (someone) frequently or systematically — see also pester",
"word": "turmentadi"
},
{
"_dis1": "39 39 3 3 16",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to annoy (someone) frequently or systematically — see also pester",
"word": "hätyyttää"
},
{
"_dis1": "39 39 3 3 16",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to annoy (someone) frequently or systematically — see also pester",
"word": "kiusata"
},
{
"_dis1": "39 39 3 3 16",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to annoy (someone) frequently or systematically — see also pester",
"word": "harceler"
},
{
"_dis1": "39 39 3 3 16",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to annoy (someone) frequently or systematically — see also pester",
"word": "belästigen"
},
{
"_dis1": "39 39 3 3 16",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to annoy (someone) frequently or systematically — see also pester",
"word": "importunare"
},
{
"_dis1": "39 39 3 3 16",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to annoy (someone) frequently or systematically — see also pester",
"word": "infastidire"
},
{
"_dis1": "39 39 3 3 16",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to annoy (someone) frequently or systematically — see also pester",
"word": "molestare"
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"ref": "1812, John Mason Good, “Part II. First Series of Controversy.”, in The Book of Job, Literally Translated from the Original Hebrew, and Restored to Its Natural Arrangement: […], London: […] [F]or Black, Parry, and Co. […], by R. Watts, Broxbourn Press, →OCLC, Job XIV:19–20",
"text": "As the waters wear to pieces the stones, / As their overflowings sweep the soil from the land,— / So consumest thou the hope of man; / Thou harassest him continually till he perish; / Thou weariest out his frame, and despatchest him.",
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"ref": "1825, Jedediah Cleishbotham [pseudonym], “Substance of Some Traditions Respecting Grimmfer the Wizard”, in New Landlord’s Tales; or, Jedediah in the South. […], volume II, London: […] [S. Gosnell] for T[homas] Hookham, […], →OCLC, chapter I, pages 126–127",
"text": "'[T]is true, that he neither harasseth his vassals from morn to eve by hard labour and exaction, nor committeth them to the dungeon, when they can no longer work nor pay. But to knights of our calling, Monsieur Robichon, he is as ill disposed as the worst of them:— […]\nBy an unknown author in imitation of Walter Scott’s Tales of My Landlord (1816–1832).",
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"(obsolete) Often followed by out: to fatigue or tire (someone) with exhausting and repeated efforts."
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},
{
"enpr": "hăʹrəs"
},
{
"enpr": "hərăsʹ"
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"code": "bn",
"lang": "Bengali",
"roman": "jalaton kora",
"sense": "to annoy (someone) frequently or systematically — see also pester",
"word": "জ্বালাতন করা"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "bezpokoja",
"sense": "to annoy (someone) frequently or systematically — see also pester",
"word": "безпокоя"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "draznja",
"sense": "to annoy (someone) frequently or systematically — see also pester",
"word": "дразня"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "to annoy (someone) frequently or systematically — see also pester",
"word": "fastiguejar"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "to annoy (someone) frequently or systematically — see also pester",
"word": "molestar"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "to annoy (someone) frequently or systematically — see also pester",
"word": "vexar"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "to annoy (someone) frequently or systematically — see also pester",
"word": "騷擾"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "sāorǎo",
"sense": "to annoy (someone) frequently or systematically — see also pester",
"word": "骚扰"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to annoy (someone) frequently or systematically — see also pester",
"word": "pesten"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "to annoy (someone) frequently or systematically — see also pester",
"word": "turmentadi"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to annoy (someone) frequently or systematically — see also pester",
"word": "hätyyttää"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to annoy (someone) frequently or systematically — see also pester",
"word": "kiusata"
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{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to annoy (someone) frequently or systematically — see also pester",
"word": "harceler"
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to annoy (someone) frequently or systematically — see also pester",
"word": "belästigen"
},
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"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to annoy (someone) frequently or systematically — see also pester",
"word": "importunare"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to annoy (someone) frequently or systematically — see also pester",
"word": "infastidire"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to annoy (someone) frequently or systematically — see also pester",
"word": "molestare"
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{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to annoy (someone) frequently or systematically — see also pester",
"word": "tormentare"
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{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to annoy (someone) frequently or systematically — see also pester",
"word": "vessare"
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{
"code": "jam",
"lang": "Jamaican Creole",
"sense": "to annoy (someone) frequently or systematically — see also pester",
"word": "badda badda"
},
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"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "to annoy (someone) frequently or systematically — see also pester",
"word": "vexō"
},
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"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to annoy (someone) frequently or systematically — see also pester",
"word": "hawene"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to annoy (someone) frequently or systematically — see also pester",
"word": "whakakūrakuraku"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to annoy (someone) frequently or systematically — see also pester",
"word": "whakangari"
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"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to annoy (someone) frequently or systematically — see also pester",
"word": "whakatīwheta"
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"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to annoy (someone) frequently or systematically — see also pester",
"word": "dręczyć"
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{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to annoy (someone) frequently or systematically — see also pester",
"word": "gnębić"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to annoy (someone) frequently or systematically — see also pester",
"word": "nękać"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to annoy (someone) frequently or systematically — see also pester",
"word": "prześladować"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to annoy (someone) frequently or systematically — see also pester",
"word": "assediar"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to annoy (someone) frequently or systematically — see also pester",
"word": "incomodar"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to annoy (someone) frequently or systematically — see also pester",
"word": "molestar"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "bespokóitʹ",
"sense": "to annoy (someone) frequently or systematically — see also pester",
"word": "беспоко́ить"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "dosaždátʹ",
"sense": "to annoy (someone) frequently or systematically — see also pester",
"word": "досажда́ть"
},
{
"code": "sa",
"lang": "Sanskrit",
"roman": "bādhati",
"sense": "to annoy (someone) frequently or systematically — see also pester",
"word": "बाधति"
},
{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "to annoy (someone) frequently or systematically — see also pester",
"word": "sàraich"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to annoy (someone) frequently or systematically — see also pester",
"word": "acosar"
},
{
"code": "wa",
"lang": "Walloon",
"sense": "to annoy (someone) frequently or systematically — see also pester",
"word": "peler"
},
{
"code": "wa",
"lang": "Walloon",
"sense": "to annoy (someone) frequently or systematically — see also pester",
"word": "soyî"
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{
"code": "wa",
"lang": "Walloon",
"sense": "to annoy (someone) frequently or systematically — see also pester",
"word": "tourmeter"
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{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "to persistently bother (someone, or a group of people) physically or psychologically when such behaviour is illegal and/or unwanted, especially over an extended period",
"word": "molestadi"
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{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "to persistently bother (someone, or a group of people) physically or psychologically when such behaviour is illegal and/or unwanted, especially over an extended period",
"word": "ĉagrenadi"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to persistently bother (someone, or a group of people) physically or psychologically when such behaviour is illegal and/or unwanted, especially over an extended period",
"word": "ahdistella"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to persistently bother (someone, or a group of people) physically or psychologically when such behaviour is illegal and/or unwanted, especially over an extended period",
"word": "häiritä"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to persistently bother (someone, or a group of people) physically or psychologically when such behaviour is illegal and/or unwanted, especially over an extended period",
"word": "harceler"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to persistently bother (someone, or a group of people) physically or psychologically when such behaviour is illegal and/or unwanted, especially over an extended period",
"word": "whakatīwhetawheta"
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{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to put excessive burdens upon (someone)",
"word": "kwellen"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to put excessive burdens upon (someone)",
"word": "vervolgen"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "to put excessive burdens upon (someone)",
"word": "troŝarĝi"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to put excessive burdens upon (someone)",
"word": "vainota"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to put excessive burdens upon (someone)",
"word": "harceler"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to put excessive burdens upon (someone)",
"word": "quälen"
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to put excessive burdens upon (someone)",
"word": "verfolgen"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to put excessive burdens upon (someone)",
"word": "assillare"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to put excessive burdens upon (someone)",
"word": "incalzare"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to put excessive burdens upon (someone)",
"word": "tartassare"
},
{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "to put excessive burdens upon (someone)",
"word": "sàraich"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to trouble (someone, or a group of people) through repeated military-style attacks",
"word": "ahdistella"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to trouble (someone, or a group of people) through repeated military-style attacks",
"word": "häiritä"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to trouble (someone, or a group of people) through repeated military-style attacks",
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