harrass

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English

Verb

harrass (third-person singular simple present harrasses, present participle harrassing, simple past and past participle harrassed)

  1. Obsolete spelling of harass., now a common misspelling.

Quotations

  • 1829, Jared Sparks, The Correspondence of the American Revolution:
    If the Americans have horse well trained to the woods, it will harrass such an army infinitely
  • 1988 April 9, Glenn L. Sitzman, “Todos Son Pillos (They Are All Thieves)”, in Gay Community News, page 4:
    When he was discharged as a homosexual and told me about the FBI files on both of us, the court martial procedure, etc., I expressed regret for any problems I had caused him with my letters. He admitted that some of my letters had given the officers material with which to harrass him, but he added "Without your letters I could not have got through the ordeal."