Hassle vs Harass - What's the difference?
hassle | harass | Synonyms |
Trouble, bother, unwanted annoyances or problems.
A fight or argument.
An action which is not worth the difficulty involved.
To trouble, to bother, to annoy.
To pick a fight or start an argument.
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
Harass is a synonym of hassle.
As nouns the difference between hassle and harass
is that hassle is trouble, bother, unwanted annoyances or problems while harass is devastation; waste.As verbs the difference between hassle and harass
is that hassle is to trouble, to bother, to annoy while harass is to fatigue or to tire with repeated and exhausting efforts.hassle
English
Noun
(en noun)- I went through a lot of hassle to be the first to get a ticket.
Verb
(hassl)- The unlucky boy was hassled by a gang of troublemakers on his way home.
Anagrams
* * *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)
