Harass vs Bedevil - What's the difference?

Harass is a related term of bedevil.

As verbs the difference between harass and bedevil

is that harass is to fatigue or to tire with repeated and exhausting efforts while bedevil is to harass or cause trouble for; to plague.

As a noun harass

is (obsolete) devastation; waste.

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

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Noun

(obsolete) devastation; waste

(Milton)

(obsolete) worry; harassment

(Byron)

bedevil

English

Verb

To harass or cause trouble for; to plague.

Guerrilla attacks continued to bedevil the larger army's supply routes.

To perplex or bewilder.

Usage notes

* The spellings bedeviling'' and ''bedeviled'' are preferred in the US, while ''bedevilling'' and ''bedevilled are preferred in the UK. However, the choice of spellings is not universal.