Harass vs False - What's the difference?
harass | false |
To fatigue or to tire with repeated and exhausting efforts.
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, 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
Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
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, title= Based on factually incorrect premises: false legislation
Spurious, artificial.
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*:At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy?; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
(lb) Of a state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result.
Uttering falsehood; dishonest or deceitful.
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Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous.
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*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:I to myself was false , ere thou to me.
Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous.
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*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:whose false foundation waves have swept away
Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.
(lb) Out of tune.
As a verb harass
is to fatigue or to tire with repeated and exhausting efforts.As a noun harass
is (obsolete) devastation; waste.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.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)
false
English
Adjective
(er)A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles: Founded Mainly on the Materials Collected by the Philological Society, section=Part 1, publisher=Clarendon Press, location=Oxford, editor= , volume=1, page=217 , passage=Also the rule of false position, with dyuers examples not onely vulgar, but some appertaynyng to the rule of Algeber.}}