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To fatigue; to tire with repeated and exhausting efforts; esp., to weary by importunity, teasing, or fretting; to cause to endure excessive burdens or anxieties; -- sometimes followed by out.

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  1. v. t. To fatigue; to tire with repeated and exhausting efforts; esp., to weary by importunity, teasing, or fretting; to cause to endure excessive burdens or anxieties; -- sometimes followed by out.
  2. n. Devastation; waste.
  3. n. Worry; harassment.
  4. v. annoy continually or chronically
  5. v. exhaust by attacking repeatedly
  6. To fatigue; to tire with repeated and exhausting efforts; esp., to weary by importunity, teasing, or fretting; to cause to endure excessive burdens or anxieties; -- sometimes followed by out. [Troops] harassed with a long and wearisome march. Bacon. Nature oppressed and harass'd out with care. Addison. Vext with lawyers and harass'd with debt. Tennyson. Syn. -- To weary; jade; tire; perplex; distress; tease; worry; disquiet; chafe; gall; annoy; irritate; plague; vex; molest; trouble; disturb; torment. 1. Devastation; waste. [Obs.] Milton. 2. Worry; harassment. [R.] Byron.
  7. To fatigue; to tire with repeated and exhausting efforts; esp.,to weary by importunity, teasing, or fretting; to cause to endureexcessive burdens or anxieties; -- sometimes followed by out.[Troops] harassed with a long and wearisome march. Bacon.Nature oppressed and harass'd out with care. Addison.Vext with lawyers and harass'd with debt. Tennyson.
  8. v:100 v. annoy continually or chronically v. exhaust by attacking repeatedly