Harass vs Terrible - What's the difference?
harass | terrible |
To fatigue or to tire with repeated and exhausting efforts.
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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
Dreadful; causing alarm and fear.
Formidable, powerful.
* 1883: (Robert Louis Stevenson), (Treasure Island)
Intense; extreme in degree or extent.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=18 Unpleasant; disagreeable.
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, title= Very bad; lousy.
* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=April 26, author=Tasha Robinson, work=The Onion AV Club
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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 terrible is
dreadful; causing alarm and fear.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)
terrible
English
Adjective
(en-adj)- and there was even a party of the younger men who pretended to admire him, calling him a "true sea-dog," and "real old salt," and such-like names, and saying there was the sort of man that made England terrible at sea.
citation, passage=‘Then the father has a great fight with his terrible conscience,’ said Munday with granite seriousness. ‘Should he make a row with the police […]? Or should he say nothing about it and condone brutality for fear of appearing in the newspapers?}}
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=To Edward […] he was terrible , nerve-inflaming, poisonously asphyxiating. He sat rocking himself in the late Mr. Churchill's swing chair, smoking and twaddling.}}
Film: Reviews: The Pirates! Band Of Misfits, passage=The openly ridiculous plot has The Pirate Captain (Hugh Grant) scheming to win the Pirate Of The Year competition, even though he’s a terrible pirate, far outclassed by rivals voiced by Jeremy Piven and Salma Hayek.}}