(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.
Haze
Definition:
(n.) Light vapor or smoke in the air which more or less impedes vision, with little or no dampness; a lack of transparency in the air; hence, figuratively, obscurity; dimness.
(v. i.) To be hazy, or tick with haze.
(v. t.) To harass by exacting unnecessary, disagreeable, or difficult work.
(v. t.) To harass or annoy by playing abusive or shameful tricks upon; to humiliate by practical jokes; -- used esp. of college students; as, the sophomores hazed a freshman.
Example Sentences:
(1) For the colony administration, controlled hazing is a convenient method for forcing prisoners into total submission to their systemic abuse of human rights.
(2) It doesn't always go to plan – a Skype interview was conducted with the bottom half of Angel Haze's face – but y'know, that's live TV and technology for you.
(3) Every day, about 500 trucks cross the border, kicking up a beige haze of dust.
(4) On the frayed, far south-western outskirts of Bogotá, the largest, poorest and most violent barrio in the Colombian capital stretches into the haze up the mountainside as far as the eye can see.
(5) Haze's new album (a follow-up to 2012's reputation-establishing Reservation ) is titled Dirty Gold .
(6) A 16-year-old caucasian female with Type VI Ehlers-Danlos syndrome had five unusual corneal findings, four of which have not been reported in association with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome: micro-cornea (previously reported), cornea plana, keratoconus posticus, stromal haze at the level of Bowman's layer and a peripheral ring opacity suggestive of anterior embryotoxon.
(7) Manager Mike Scioscia may have one-time slugger Josh Hamilton back in time for the postseason, should he heal from rib inflammation ( if they even need him ); same goes for starting pitcher Matt Shoemaker, who has carried the team down the stretch and is recovering from a mild left rib-cage strain , not to mention his rookie hazing role as a Saudi oil tycoon.
(8) Slit-lamp biomicroscopy disclosed localized thinning with stromal haze underlying the endothelium in the central cornea.
(9) The concentration of radon-222 in air was measured during a flight from Miami to Barbados to Dakar and return; concentrations ranged from 1 to 55 picocuries per standard cubic meter of air and were highest in areas of dense haze, which were present along most of the flight path across the Atlantic Ocean.
(10) There's a sense of generations passing in a haze of crisp formalities, with decades of unexpressed emotions left to accumulate, like dust on a snoozing duchess.
(11) A dense subepithelial haze was observed in the 5 eyes.
(12) The experimental results were consistent with observations on natural infections and indicate that the direct life cycle of H. haze may involve invertebrates as transport hosts.
(13) A fter a week in Kolkata , blessed with mellow sunsets created by the yellowy haze that hung over the city, I flew back to Britain via Delhi on Friday.
(14) Haze was progressively reduced over 1 month, but it could be still discerned biomicroscopically.
(15) It was shown experimentally that H. haze develops to the second stage in the egg and does not hatch spontaneously.
(16) He was joined by other Singaporeans who voted in a thick haze, the result of forest fires in nearby Indonesia.
(17) The results indicate that following ablation with an ultraviolet laser in both humans and primates, the ablated tissue shows a normal healing reaction resulting in a mild to moderate stromal interface haze.
(18) In most patients the haze persisted for two years after gel treatment was discontinued; the haze disappeared in two patients.
(19) In April 1997 the haze of uncertainty about Labour had long been dispelled.
(20) Behrooz Mohammadi, a 35-year-old computer engineer, told the Guardian that the haze in Tehran was so bad this week that even the Milad Tower, the sixth tallest in the world, was not visible from close by.