harrassとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

harrass (third-person singular simple present harrasses, present participle harrassing, simple past and past participle harrassed)

1. Obsolete spelling of harass, now a common misspelling.
   • 1829, Jared Sparks, The Correspondence of the American Revolution:

     If the Americans have horse well trained to the woods, it will harrass such an army infinitely

   • 1880, Mark Twain [pseudonym] (Samuel L[anghorne] Clemens), chapter XLIII, in A Tramp Abroad; […], Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company; London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 509:

     [I]n his soundest sleep, the strain continues, he goes on listening, always listening, intently, anxiously, and wakes at last, harrassed, irritable, unrefreshed.

   • 1988 April 9, Glenn L. Sitzman, “Todos Son Pillos (They Are All Thieves)”, in Gay Community News, page 4:

     When he was discharged as a homosexual and told me about the FBI files on both of us, the court martial procedure, etc., I expressed regret for any problems I had caused him with my letters. He admitted that some of my letters had given the officers material with which to harrass him, but he added "Without your letters I could not have got through the ordeal."