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harass

verb

1 children always harass their mother:

pester, badger, hound, harry, plague, torment, bedevil, persecute, bother, annoy, exasperate, worry, disturb, trouble, agitate, provoke, vex;

stress, stress out, nag, keep on at, chivvy;

tease, bait, molest;

informal hassle, bug, give someone a hard time, drive someone up the wall, drive someone round the bend;

British, informal drive someone round the twist;

Northern English, informal mither;

North American, informal devil, ride.

▷antonyms leave in peace.

2 they were sent to harass the enemy flanks and rear:

harry, attack repeatedly, raid, press hard, beleaguer, set upon, assail, maraud, ravage, oppress.

harass Oxford Dictionary of English