Harassed
adj, verb
adj, verb ·2 syllables ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 simple past and past participle of harass form-of, participle, past
Adjective
- 1 Subject to harassment.
"No matter how early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes,[…]. And at last I began to realize in my harassed soul that all elusion was futile, and to take such holidays as I could get, when he was off with a girl, in a spirit of thankfulness."
Adjective
- 1 troubled persistently especially with petty annoyances wordnet
Antonyms
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More examples"The harassed mule got his back up and began kicking up dust."
Etymology
From harass + -ed.