Emily Dickinson Lexicon

HAR'ASS, v.t. [Fr. harasser. Qu. Ir. creasam.]

1. To weary; to fatigue to excess; to tire with bodily labor; as, to harass an army by a long march. Bacon.
2. To weary with importunity, care, or perplexity; to tease; to perplex. Nature oppress'd and harass'd out with care. Addison.
3. To waste or desolate. [Obs.] Hammond.