(v. t.) 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.
(n.) Devastation; waste.
(n.) Worry; harassment.
Example Sentences:
(1) The city council’s community safety team, now responsible for a leaflet campaign urging young Muslims not to join Isis, used to employ 31-year old Mashudur Choudhury as a racial harassment worker.
(2) Some 300 million women and girls are forced to defecate outside, exposed not only to the risks of disease and bacterial infection, but also harassment and assault by men.
(3) The checkpoints are a recipe for harassment and abuse.” Among other moves disclosed were plans to hire 300 extra security guards to secure public transport in the city.
(4) Kelly reportedly spoke with lawyers investigating claims of sexual harassment by former Fox chairman Roger Ailes, who left the network following allegations by several women of years of abuse.
(5) Even when things are taken more seriously, harassers are generally allowed to leave quietly, which enables them to move some place else and do the same thing.” Many of the women who made complaints to their institutions said they felt they were the ones on trial, while alleged perpetrators were often protected by management who feared losing a star researcher and their funding.
(6) A mother and her son shared delusional beliefs that doubles of themselves existed and that they were being harassed by the police and social and educational services.
(7) For me, this is what needs to change - we need a cultural shift in our attitudes and behaviours and that needs to see all of us standing up and calling out harassment and misogyny, whether it is in the street or the workplace, to erode that normalisation that makes perpetrators feel safe doing it again and again.
(8) He stressed that the sister-in-law and her husband were not only accused of circulating libellously untrue stories but also of harassment of the wealthy financier.
(9) Anna Gautheron only learned what the term "street harassment" meant when she read about it online.
(10) Rob Bliss, who runs a viral video marketing agency, created and directed the video in association with Hollaback , a New York-based group dedicated to ending street harassment .
(11) • Detainees’ families have suffered further persecution: for example, the wives of Li Heping, Wang Quanzhang, Xie Yang and Xie Yanyi have been subjected to police monitoring and harassment; the children of Li Heping and Wang Quanzhang have been denied enrolment at state schools due to police pressure; and the authorities have put pressure on the landlords of Wang Quanzhang’s and Xie Yanyi’s families to evict them from their homes.
(12) Almost all of the 20-plus women claim they experienced Ailes’s harassment firsthand.
(13) On one level this is quite just, as everyone has the right to defend themselves, but in cases of sexual harassment it does nothing to protect vulnerable people or to encourage them to come forward.
(14) Not only did erections survive unscathed, but sexual harassment continued to flourish.
(15) Public debate over the problem intensified after the 2011 uprising, with activists and lawyers saying they see progress in transforming attitudes and more harassers being jailed.
(16) And in the last month, it has faced serious allegations about sexual harassment , as early-stage investors have lambasted its “destructive culture” .
(17) Miller is suing the NoW's parent company, News Group, and Mulcaire, accusing them of breaching her privacy and of harassing her "solely for the commercial purpose of profiting from obtaining private information about her and to satisfy the prurient curiosity of members of the public regarding the private life of a well-known individual".
(18) The buses are so crowded that women are bound to get harassed.
(19) The tribunal added that Dean's dismissal was a consequence of unlawful harassment arising "not from treating the claimant differently from non-disabled associates [in enforcing the 'look policy'], but in treating her the same in circumstances where it should have made an adjustment".
(20) "Dreaming only of sleep and a sip of tea, the exhausted, harassed and dirty convict becomes obedient putty in the hands of the administration, which sees us solely as a free work force.
Harrass
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Adebolajo and his friends and family have claimed he was mistreated while in custody and harrassed by MI5 who wanted to turn him into an informer on his return but no evidence was presented to the committee in support of this.
(2) A few weeks ago, Jaczko was forced to take the extraordinary step of calling a press conference to deny harrassing female colleagues.
(3) This summary of the group's full report covers: 1) health care under apartheid; 2) medical education; 3) human rights violations and health professionals (including torture, hunger strikes and restrictions, harrassment of health professionals, the physician and the prison system, and the impact of detention on children); 4) the response of the medical community to human rights violations; and 5) concluding observations.
(4) She advised that your ex has commited criminal offences, of harassment, against the Protection of Harrassment Act 2003 and by cyber-stalking you (section 127 of the Communications Act 2003).
(5) The good has been off-the-wall inspiring, and the ugly made me doubt humanity.” Pao instituted measures against trolling and harrassment, causing resentment among many users and leading some to leave the site .
(6) There was little "eve-teasing" – as sexual harrassment is often euphemistically called in India – because fathers would unite to ensure anyone troubling their daughters stopped.
(7) Scores on the scales were also found to predict suicide precautions on the wards, harrassment of other patients as assessed from nursing notes, and indicators of violence on the wards.
(8) Harrassment did not appear to have affected the average number of abortions performed at large nonhospital facilities or the fee charged.
(9) Catherine Ashton, the EU foreign policy chief, said she was "deeply concerned" at the human rights situation in China , referring to the arrest, harrassment, sentencing and disappearance of lawyers, writers, artists and dissidents, and new restrictions imposed on foreign journalists.
(10) Since then, Chan has covered a range of stories, including several hard-hitting reports on secret "black jails" , the harrassment of Liu Xia , the wife of the Nobel Prize winner Liu Xiaobo, official corruption and the grief of families who lost children during the Sichuan earthquake .
(11) On Thursday the BBC published a report resulting from an internal inquiry into bullying and harrassment commissioned in the wake of the Jimmy Savile sex abuse scandal, which uncovered widespread allegations of bullying and an inadequate complaints procedure which meant whistleblowers' concerns often went unheeded.
(12) Because there were more senior members on the armed services committee there with us, I waited until the time was right and then I told them how pissed off I was because when they have the audacity to talk about a zero tolerance policy toward sexual harrassment and violence in the military when they aren't even close to being there, I get pissed off.
(13) The eyewitness also told the Guardian: "A girl was harrassed violently by basij militia in Valie Asr Square where she was pushed on the ground and was taken away."
(14) The level of harrassment in 1985 varied by type and size of provider, but no group was immune from such activity.
(15) The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have sent a legal letter alleging harrassment by a journalist, saying they suspected Prince George had been put “under surveillance”.
(16) "There is discussion for the first time of what it means to be a women here especially the systematic harrassment in the street, on buses and so on.
(17) Photographers have been harrassed , questioned , detained , arrested or worse , and declared to be unwelcome .
(18) More than half of the facilities experiencing any form of antiabortion harrassment also reported bomb threats (55-86%), loud demonstrations (52-84%), physical contact with or blocking of patients by picketers (59-83%), and distribution of antiabortion literature inside the facility (57-82%).
(19) Unemployment, lack of opportunity, police harrassment, and discrimination emerged as the dominant themes.
(20) 88% reported at least 1 type of harrassment during the year.