Haggled vs Harassed - What's the difference?
haggled | harassed |
(haggle)
To argue for a better deal, especially over prices with a seller.
To hack (cut crudely)
* Shakespeare
* 1884 : (Mark Twain), (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn), Chapter VIII
To stick at small matters; to chaffer; to higgle.
* Walpole
(harass)
To fatigue or to tire with repeated and exhausting efforts.
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, 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]
To put excessive burdens upon; to subject to anxieties.
(obsolete) devastation; waste
(obsolete) worry; harassment
As verbs the difference between haggled and harassed
is that haggled is (haggle) while harassed is (harass).haggled
English
Verb
(head)haggle
English
Verb
- I haggled for a better price because the original price was too high.
- Suffolk first died, and York, all haggled o'er, / Comes to him, where in gore he lay insteeped.
- I catched a catfish and haggled him open with my saw, and towards sundown I started my camp fire and had supper. Then I set out a line to catch some fish for breakfast.
- Royalty and science never haggled about the value of blood.
Synonyms
* (to argue for a better deal) wrangleDerived terms
* hagglerSee also
* (l)harassed
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Verb
(head)harass
English
Verb
(es)- 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.
- in the early 1940s.
Synonyms
* hassle * harry * chivy or chivvy * chevy or chevvy * beset * plague * molest * provokeDerived terms
* harasser * harassmentExternal links
* *Noun
- (Milton)
- (Byron)