harasser

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English harass

Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.

Proto-Italic *-āzijos

Latin -āriusnom.

Latin -āriusbor.

Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz

Proto-West Germanic *-ārī

Old English -ere

Middle English -ere

English -er

English harasser

From harass + -er.

Noun

harasser (plural harassers)

1. One who harasses.
   • 2017 May 24, Ronald A. Pink, “#WorkLawWednesday: Why Does the Harassee Always Pay the Price?”, in Pink Larkin‎^[1]:

     All the eyes focus on the harasser. However, the person affected, the harassee, is often left behind. The harassee is most often a second thought. Employers may say “don’t forget about the harassee”, or “we must check on the how the harassee is doing”, but that is insufficient.

   • 2018 April, Larry Zimmerman, “Cheap and Easily Manipulated Video”, in The Journal of the Kansas Bar Association‎^[2], Topeka, Kan.: Kansas Bar Association, →ISSN, page 21:

     Ordinary people have already been face-swapped into videos for humorous or prank purposes and there is no reason to believe that abusers, harassers, stalkers, and blackmailers will not soon be face-swapping victims into compromising video as part of their arsenal.

Derived terms

• cyberharasser

Translations

one who harasses

• Catalan: assetjador m
• Indonesian: peleceh (id)
• Latin: vexātor m
• Spanish: acosador (es) m

Anagrams

• harrases

French

Etymology

From harer (“to set a dog on”), of Germanic origin, from Frankish *hara (“here, hither”), from Proto-Germanic *hē₂r (“here, hither”).

Pronunciation

• ^{(aspirated h)} IPA^(key): /a.ʁa.se/

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• Rhymes: -e
• Homophones: aracée, harassai, harassé, harassée, harassées, harassés, harassez

Verb

harasser

1. to exhaust, to wear out

Conjugation

Conjugation of harasser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	harasser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	harassant /a.ʁa.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		harassé /a.ʁa.se/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	harasse /a.ʁas/	harasses /a.ʁas/	harasse /a.ʁas/	harassons /a.ʁa.sɔ̃/	harassez /a.ʁa.se/	harassent /a.ʁas/
	imperfect	harassais /a.ʁa.sɛ/	harassais /a.ʁa.sɛ/	harassait /a.ʁa.sɛ/	harassions /a.ʁa.sjɔ̃/	harassiez /a.ʁa.sje/	harassaient /a.ʁa.sɛ/
	past historic2	harassai /a.ʁa.se/	harassas /a.ʁa.sa/	harassa /a.ʁa.sa/	harassâmes /a.ʁa.sam/	harassâtes /a.ʁa.sat/	harassèrent /a.ʁa.sɛʁ/
	future	harasserai /a.ʁa.sʁe/	harasseras /a.ʁa.sʁa/	harassera /a.ʁa.sʁa/	harasserons /a.ʁa.sʁɔ̃/	harasserez /a.ʁa.sʁe/	harasseront /a.ʁa.sʁɔ̃/
	conditional	harasserais /a.ʁa.sʁɛ/	harasserais /a.ʁa.sʁɛ/	harasserait /a.ʁa.sʁɛ/	harasserions /a.ʁa.sə.ʁjɔ̃/	harasseriez /a.ʁa.sə.ʁje/	harasseraient /a.ʁa.sʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	harasse /a.ʁas/	harasses /a.ʁas/	harasse /a.ʁas/	harassions /a.ʁa.sjɔ̃/	harassiez /a.ʁa.sje/	harassent /a.ʁas/
	imperfect2	harassasse /a.ʁa.sas/	harassasses /a.ʁa.sas/	harassât /a.ʁa.sa/	harassassions /a.ʁa.sa.sjɔ̃/	harassassiez /a.ʁa.sa.sje/	harassassent /a.ʁa.sas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	harasse /a.ʁas/	—	harassons /a.ʁa.sɔ̃/	harassez /a.ʁa.se/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Related terms

• harassement

References

• James A. H. Murray et al., editors (1884–1928), “Harasser”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC.
• “harass”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.

Further reading

• “harasser”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012