Tom attempted to molest the eight-year-old child.
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Molest
/məˈlɛst/
Synonyms for "molest" (154 found)
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The bee makes honey, which the drone devours. The wasp and the hornet molest with a sting: and especially cattle, so do the gadfly (breeze), the fly and the gnat.
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At last he simmered down, choked out his explanations. And the news was indeed enormous. That afternoon, just three hours earlier, his younger sister, Gina, had been molested, debauched, as she crossed a children's playground in the park.
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They have molested the church with needless opposition.
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