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harassed

harassed adjective: subject to harassment. Also the simple past and past participle of harass.

Adjective

harassed (comparative more harassed, superlative most harassed)

  1. Subject to harassment.
    • No matter how early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes,[…]. And at last I began to realize in my harassed soul that all elusion was futile, and to take such holidays as I could get, when he was off with a girl, in a spirit of thankfulness.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, page 46
    • Diggle Station lies high up in the Pennine Chain, subject to extreme low temperatures. With this and heavy snowfall in the winter months, Diggle bids fair to compete with the Scottish lines under similar weather conditions, and the provision of unfrozen water in the higher ambient temperature of...1959 February, “Letters to the Editor: Diggle Water Troughs”, in Railway Magazine, page 135

Also used as

harassed is also the simple past and past participle of harass.

harassed meaning in Tamil, Bengali and Kannada

harassed in Tamil

துன்புறுத்தப்பட்டது

harassed in Bengali

হয়রানি করা হয়েছে

harassed in Kannada

ಕಿರುಕುಳ ನೀಡಿದ್ದಾರೆ, ಕಿರುಕುಳ ನೀಡಲಾಗಿದೆ

Forms of harassed

comparativemore harassed
superlativemost harassed

Origin of harassed

From harass + -ed.

Words formed from harassed

Questions about harassed

What does harassed mean?
Harassed means subject to harassment.
What is harassed in Tamil?
Harassed in Tamil is துன்புறுத்தப்பட்டது. See Harassed meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is harassed?
Harassed is an adjective.

Words near harassed in the dictionary

  1. Harari
  2. Hararis
  3. haras
  4. harass
  5. harassable
  6. harassed
  7. harassedly
  8. harassee
  9. harassees
  10. harasser
  11. harasseries

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: harassed (page history and authors); harassed (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); harassed (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); harassed (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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