Meaning

Persistent attacks and criticism causing worry and distress..

Definitions by Sense

1. Persistent attacks and criticism causing worry and distress.
2. Deliberate pestering or intimidation.
3. (military) The use of repeated small-scale attacks to wear down an enemy force.

Example Sentences

“As a result, OCR found that the district’s pattern of inconsistent responses to reports it received of sexual harassment – infrequently responding under Title IX or not responding at all – rose to the level that the district’s response to some families’ sexual harassment reports was deliberately indifferent to students’ civil rights,” a news release from DOE reads.

Throughout this period, and beyond, into the rest of the battle, aircraft of various types and loadouts are crisscrossing the skies in desperate harassment attacks, with the pilots having to play constant games of "guess the carrier" to decide where to land as escort carriers are hit, sunk, disappear in columns of shell splashes, or are forced to evade at angles to the wind that make landing on them impossible.

Word Forms

• harassments

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Use harassment when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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