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Bullying vs Harass - What's the difference?

bullying | harass |

As nouns the difference between bullying and harass

is that bullying is an act of intimidating a weaker person to do something, especially such repeated coercion while harass is (obsolete) devastation; waste.

As verbs the difference between bullying and harass

is that bullying is while harass is to fatigue or to tire with repeated and exhausting efforts.

bullying

English

(wikipedia bullying)

Noun

(en noun)
  • An act of intimidating a weaker person to do something, especially such repeated coercion.
  • Persistent acts intended to make life unpleasant for another person.

    • Related terms

    * bully

    See also

    * * mobbing

    Verb

    (head)
    • ----

    harass

    English

    Verb

    (es)
  • To fatigue or to tire with repeated and exhausting efforts.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4 , passage=No matter how early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes, or
  • To annoy endlessly or systematically; to molest.
  • * 1877 , (Anna Sewell), (Black Beauty) Chapter 23[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Black_Beauty/23]
    • In my old home, I always knew that John and my master were my friends; but here, although in many ways I was well treated, I had no friend. York might have known, and very likely did know, how that rein harassed me; but I suppose he took it as a matter of course that could not be helped; at any rate nothing was done to relieve me.
  • To put excessive burdens upon; to subject to anxieties.
    • in the early 1940s.

    Synonyms

    * hassle * harry * chivy or chivvy * chevy or chevvy * beset * plague * molest * provoke

    Derived terms

    * harasser * harassment

    External links

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    Noun

  • (obsolete) devastation; waste
    • (Milton)
  • (obsolete) worry; harassment
    • (Byron)