Verb

(en-verb)

To seize or shake by the throat, especially of a dog or wolf.

Your dog’s been worrying sheep again.

To harass; to irritate or distress.

The President was worried into military action by persistent advisors.

Disturb the peace of mind of; afflict with mental agitation or distress.

Your tone of voice worries me.

To be troubled, to give way to mental anxiety.

Stop worrying about your test, it’ll be fine.

(transitive, obsolete, except in Scots) To strangle.

To cause concern or anxiety.

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Verb

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(harass)

Verb

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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]

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.