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harassing

harassing adjective: characterized by harassment; pestering, intimidating. Also the present participle and gerund of harass.

Adjective

harassing (comparative more harassing, superlative most harassing)

  1. Characterized by harassment; pestering, intimidating.
    • Friends and co-workers also added that Jodi complained of harassing phone calls in the weeks before she disappeared.2026 August 10, Nicholas Muhoro, “Jodi Huisentruit, 27, Vanished From Her Apartment Parking Lot in 1995. Police Found Signs of a Struggle”, in Skip Boring, archived from the original on 11 Aug 2026
    Synonyms:
    besetting

Noun

harassing (plural harassings)

  1. Harassment.
    • Sometimes we observe these wretched peasants, driven to despair by the harassings of the Boyars, commit the useless imprudence of going to the capital, and, under the windows of the prince, with loud cries, require him to hear their claims.1826, Charles Swan, Journal of a voyage up the Mediterranean

Also used as

harassing is also the present participle and gerund of harass.

harassing meaning in Kannada

harassing in Kannada

ಕಿರುಕುಳ ನೀಡುತ್ತಿದೆ

Synonyms of harassing

Forms of harassing

Adjective
comparativemore harassing
superlativemost harassing
Noun
pluralharassings

Questions about harassing

What does harassing mean?
Harassing means characterized by harassment; pestering, intimidating.
What is harassing in Kannada?
Harassing in Kannada is ಕಿರುಕುಳ ನೀಡುತ್ತಿದೆ. See Harassing meaning in Kannada.
What part of speech is harassing?
Harassing can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near harassing in the dictionary

  1. harassest
  2. harasseth
  3. harassful
  4. harasshole
  5. harassholes
  6. harassing
  7. harassingly
  8. harassings
  9. harassive
  10. harassment
  11. harassment and interdiction

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Adapted from Wiktionary: harassing (page history and authors); harassing (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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