Harass vs Inflame - What's the difference?
harass | inflame |
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]
To put excessive burdens upon; to subject to anxieties.
(obsolete) devastation; waste
(obsolete) worry; harassment
To set on fire; to kindle; to cause to burn, flame, or glow.
* Chapman
(figuratively) To kindle or intensify, as passion or appetite; to excite to an excessive or unnatural action or heat.
* Milton
* Dryden
To provoke to anger or rage; to exasperate; to irritate; to incense; to enrage.
* Shakespeare
*, chapter=12
, title= To put in a state of inflammation; to produce morbid heat, congestion, or swelling, of.
To exaggerate; to enlarge upon.
* Addison
*1773 , (Oliver Goldsmith),
*:As you say, we passengers are to be taxed to pay all these fineries. I have often seen a good sideboard, or a marble chimney-piece, though not actually put in the bill, inflame a reckoning confoundedly.
To grow morbidly hot, congested, or painful; to become angry or incensed.
As verbs the difference between harass and inflame
is that harass is to fatigue or to tire with repeated and exhausting efforts while inflame is .As a noun harass
is (obsolete) devastation; waste.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)
inflame
English
Verb
(inflam)- We should have made retreat / By light of the inflamed fleet.
- to inflame desire
- more, it seems, inflamed with lust than rage
- But, O inflame and fire our hearts.
- It will inflame you; it will make you mad.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=To Edward
- to inflame the eyes by overwork
- A friend exaggerates a man's virtues, an enemy inflames his crimes.