Reverse Dictionary: HARASS

ADJECTIVES
1702 — HAG-RIDDEN oppressed in mind; harassed
1808 — TAGGLIT harassed with anything, encumbered, drudged → Sc.
1854 — HATTERED exhausted; harassed; badly treated → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1870 — LANTERED hard-pressed, distracted, harassed; beaten → Eng. dial.
1873 — HARRYING worrying, harassing, wearying → Eng. dial.
1892 — TEWED harassed, bothered → Amer. dial.
1902 — HATTERING harassing, tiring → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1948 — ON SOMEONE’S ASS harassing, vexing, scolding, pursuing someone → Amer. sl.

NOUNS
1537 — GALL a thing that harasses or distresses → obs.
1905 — MAUL a harassment, vexation; an infliction → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1926 — STATIC harassment, trouble, complications → US sl.
1940 — BALL-BUSTING harassment → sl., orig. US
1948 — BALL-BREAKING. harassment → US sl.
1960 — AGGRO → AGRO any form of problems, difficulties, harassment → sl.

NOUNS, PERSON
1537 — GALL a person or thing that harasses or distresses → obs.
1942 — BALLBREAKER a demanding, contentious, harassing, annoying, or otherwise vexatious person; a cruel taskmaster; a strict disciplinarian; a nagging or domineering woman → US sl.
1944 — BALLBUSTER a demanding, contentious, harassing, annoying, or otherwise vexatious person; a cruel taskmaster; a strict disciplinarian; a nagging or domineering woman → US sl.

PHRASES
..20C — GET OFF A PERSON’S BACK to stop harassing or annoying him or her → colloq.

VERBS
1000 — BESTAND to stand round in hostility; to beset, to press hard upon, to harass → obs.
1175 — THRING to press hard, use oppression; to oppress, to harass, to distress, to afflict → obs.
1225 — WAR to harass, to persecute → obs.
1300 — HARRY to harass persons by hostile attacks, forced exactions, or rapacity; to oppress, to despoil
1330 — CARK to burden with care; to worry, to harass, to vex, to trouble; chiefly used in past participle → obs.
1382 — OPPRESS of an enemy, external circumstances, etc.: to press or bear heavily on; to reduce to straits; to molest, to trouble, to harass, to distress → obs.
1400 — HARRY to worry, to goad, to torment, to harass; to maltreat, to ill-use, to persecute; to worry mentally; to bother
1523 — HARE to harry; to worry; to harass; to tease → obs.
1543 — MOLESTATE to harass, to trouble → obs.
1588 — MACERATE to harass with hardships; to worry; to mortify → obs.
1600 — BEPESTER to pester greatly, to plague, to vex, to harass
1645 — DOG to harass or worry a person; to continue at a thing persistently or doggedly
1661 — HAG-RIDE to harass, to torment, esp. during sleep; to cause nightmares or nightmare-like experiences → Sc. & Amer. dial.
1687 — HATTER to harass, to vex, to ill-treat; to wear out, to exhaust with fatigue or drudgery → obs. exc. Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
1721 — NITHER to oppress, to lay low, to suppress, to keep under, to vex, to harass → Sc. 
1768 — TARVEAL to drive a person hard at work, to harass, to fatigue; to vex, to plague → Sc. obs.
1790 — BULLYRAG to harass someone
..19C — TEASE to harass; to drive → Sc.
1803 — TAINGHLE to harass or weary with hard work; to struggle on, to toil laboriously → Sc.
1818 — HAISTER to perplex, to tease, to pester, to vex, to harass a person; to annoy → Sc.
1818 — HERRY to harass, to oppress, to despoil, to ruin; to drag or carry off → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1818 — HESTER to perplex, to tease, to pester, to vex, to harass a person → Sc.
1819 — DEVIL to tease, to annoy, to bother, to harass → Amer. dial.
1824 — TEW to exhaust; to fatigue; to tire; to trouble, to harass, to bother; to overcome → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1833 — HATCHEL to harass, to worry
1839 — TERRIFY to irritate, to torment, to harass, to annoy, to tease →  Eng. & Amer, dial.
1843 — HARRISH to harass, to worry, to torment, to trouble; to ravage → Ireland & Eng. dial.
1843 — JERK to call to account, to reprimand; to harass → Amer. dial.
1848 — FRAB to harass, worry, fret, fidget; to irritate, excite → Eng. dial.
1860 — HERRY to harass, to tease, to worry, to bother; to overdo, to urge, to impel → Eng. dial.
1860 — RAG to tease, to banter, to harass, to annoy; to engage in teasing → sl.
1861 — NIRK to irk, to annoy, to harass, to weary → Eng. dial.
1864 — WOOL to badger, to harass → Amer. sl.
1881 — HARROW to harass, to distress, to fatigue greatly → Eng. dial.
1898 — BERAG to worry, to harass, to annoy → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
..L19 — MESS WITH to harass, to annoy, to interfere with → sl.
1900 — RAG ON to tease, to banter, to harass, to annoy; to engage in teasing → Amer. sl.
1900 — YANK to victimize, to harass or to dupe → US sl.
1905 — HAGGLE to tease, to worry, to harass; to over-work, to fatigue, to tire out → Amer. dial. (Bk.)
1905 — MAUL to fatigue, to tire out; to harass, to vex → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 — PAIL to trouble; to harass, to weary → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1927 — JAY to harass, to pester someone until a desired result is obtained → Amer. dial.
1934 — RANK to kid or tease a person; to annoy, to harass; to ridicule → Amer. dial.
1946 — MOMMICK → MOMMOCK → MUMMICK → MUMMOCK to harass, to tease, to annoy, to torment, to impose on → Amer. dial.
1955 — BREAK ONE’S BALLS to provoke anger; hence, to make oneself a pest, as by complaining or scolding; to harass, to hector, to nag → US sl.
1959 — HASSLE to cause trouble or harm to; to bother, to pester, to harass a person
1962 — PULL SOMEONE’S CHAIN to elicit someone’s anger or annoyance, esp. deliberately; to nag; to upset someone, esp. by teasing or harassing; → US sl.
1965 — BUST ONE’S ASS to harass; to annoy → Amer. sl.
1966 — RANK OUT to kid or tease a person; to harass, to insult → Amer. dial.
1967 — BEHOODLE to annoy, to harass, to bother → Amer. dial.
1967 — BUST ONE’S BALLS to provoke anger; hence, to make oneself a pest, as by complaining or scolding; to harass, to hector, to nag → US sl.
1967 — MONSTER to harass, to threaten, to victimize someone → Aust. sl.
1973 — MUG to overpower a person; to attack or harass without the use of physical force
1976 — ASS-BITE to harass an employee or the like → Amer. sl.
1980 — DANCE SOMEONE AROUND to harass; to pressurize someone → US sl.
1980 — JERK SOMEONE’S CHAIN to upset someone, esp. by teasing or harassing; to anger someone → Amer. sl.
1980 — JERK SOMEONE’S STRING to upset someone, esp. by teasing or harassing; to anger someone → Amer. sl.
1980 — PULL SOMEONE’S STRING to upset someone, esp. by teasing or harassing; to anger someone → Amer. sl.
1980 — RATTLE SOMEONE’S CHAIN to upset someone, esp. by teasing or harassing; to anger someone → Amer. sl.
1980 — RATTLE SOMEONE’S STRING to upset someone, esp. by teasing or harassing; to anger someone → Amer. sl.
1980 — YANK SOMEONE’S CHAIN to upset someone, esp. by teasing or harassing; to anger someone → Amer. sl.
1980 — YANK SOMEONE’S STRING to upset someone, esp. by teasing or harassing; to anger someone→ Amer. sl.
1991 — RAIZE to annoy or harass someone → US sl.