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  • She was harassed by the police.
    harassed = persistently bothered
  • When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.†  (source)
  • Sekani saw cops harass his daddy, but he's doing so well in school.  (source)
    harass = disturb with excessive demands
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  • If you don't mind being harassed by my mother.†  (source)
  • I had stopped harassing Buffo so that Janina would also stop, but it didn't work.  (source)
    harassing = persistently annoying
  • All we know is that they are said to live deep in the forest, that they welcome runaways, and that they harass the white, man's plantations and plan his destruction?  (source)
    harass = repeatedly attack to weaken
  • Still, you won't have to worry about the old sexual harassment, eh?†  (source)
  • and it only harasses me.†  (source)
  • Possibly, as they dislik'd my late intimacy with the members of council, who had join'd the governors in all the disputes about military preparations, with which the House had long been harass'd, they might have been pleas'd if I would voluntarily have left them; but they did not care to displace me on account merely of my zeal for the association, and they could not well give another reason.†  (source)
  • She would have to fight the ghosts massed at crossroads for the buns a few thoughtful citizens leave to decoy her away from village and home so that the ancestral spirits could feast unharassed.†  (source)
    unharassed = not annoyed or attacked
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unharassed means not and reverses the meaning of harassed. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
  • Everything was intertwined and at cross-purposes, a great general confusion—and Hans Castorp thought he saw that the disputants would have been less embittered, if during their dispute each had not been the harasser of his own soul.†  (source)
  • Such heaping of horrors the hater of men, lonely roamer, wrought unceasing, harassings heavy.†  (source)
  • They harassed one another as they played.†  (source)
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