Usually means: Persistently annoy or trouble someone.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word harass:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. harass: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. harass: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. harass: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. harass: Collins English Dictionary
  5. harass: Vocabulary.com
  6. Harass, harass: Wordnik
  7. harass: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. harass: Wiktionary
  9. harass: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. harass: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. harass: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. harass: Dictionary.com
  13. harass: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. harass: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Harass: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Harass: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. harass: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. harass: Rhymezone
  19. harass: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. harass: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. harass: Free Dictionary
  22. harass: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. harass: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. harass: Law.com Dictionary
  2. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  4. harass: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. harass: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. harass: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. harass: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See harassed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  To annoy (someone) frequently or systematically; to pester.
verb:  (specifically) To persistently bother (someone, or a group of people) physically or psychologically when such behaviour is illegal and/or unwanted, especially over an extended period.
verb:  To put excessive burdens upon (someone); to subject (someone) to anxieties.
verb:  To trouble (someone, or a group of people) through repeated military-style attacks.
verb:  (obsolete) Often followed by out: to fatigue or tire (someone) with exhausting and repeated efforts.
noun:  (archaic) Harassment; pestering.

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