To disturb by repeated attacks

• worry

  1. To feel uneasy or concerned about something; be troubled.
  2. To seize something with the teeth and bite or tear repeatedly:
  3. To touch or handle something nervously or persistently:

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  1. To feel uneasy or concerned about something; be troubled.
  2. To seize something with the teeth and bite or tear repeatedly:
  3. To touch or handle something nervously or persistently:

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• torment

  1. Great physical pain or mental anguish.
  2. A source of harassment, annoyance, or pain.
  3. The torture inflicted on prisoners under interrogation.

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  1. Great physical pain or mental anguish.
  2. A source of harassment, annoyance, or pain.
  3. The torture inflicted on prisoners under interrogation.

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• plague

  1. A highly infectious, usually fatal, epidemic disease; a pestilence.
  2. A virulent, infectious disease that is caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis (syn. Pasteurella pestis ) and is transmitted primarily by the bite of fleas from an infected rodent, especially a rat. In humans it occurs in bubonic form, marked by lymph node enlargement, and in pneumonic form, marked by infection of the lungs, and can progress to septicemia.
  3. A widespread affliction or calamity seen as divine retribution.

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  1. A highly infectious, usually fatal, epidemic disease; a pestilence.
  2. A virulent, infectious disease that is caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis (syn. Pasteurella pestis ) and is transmitted primarily by the bite of fleas from an infected rodent, especially a rat. In humans it occurs in bubonic form, marked by lymph node enlargement, and in pneumonic form, marked by infection of the lungs, and can progress to septicemia.
  3. A widespread affliction or calamity seen as divine retribution.

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• pester

  1. To annoy persistently, as with repeated demands or questions.

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  1. To annoy persistently, as with repeated demands or questions.

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• harry

  1. To disturb, distress, or exhaust by repeated demands or criticism; harass.
  2. To attack or raid, as in war:
  3. To force along, as by attacks or blows:

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  1. To disturb, distress, or exhaust by repeated demands or criticism; harass.
  2. To attack or raid, as in war:
  3. To force along, as by attacks or blows:

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• harass

  1. To subject (another) to hostile or prejudicial remarks or actions; pressure or intimidate.
  2. To irritate or torment persistently:
  3. To make repeated attacks or raids on (an enemy, for example).

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  1. To subject (another) to hostile or prejudicial remarks or actions; pressure or intimidate.
  2. To irritate or torment persistently:
  3. To make repeated attacks or raids on (an enemy, for example).

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• beset

  1. To attack from all sides.
  2. To trouble persistently; harass.
  3. To hem in; surround:

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  1. To attack from all sides.
  2. To trouble persistently; harass.
  3. To hem in; surround:

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• beleaguer

  1. To harass; beset:
  2. To surround with troops; besiege:

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  1. To harass; beset:
  2. To surround with troops; besiege:

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• bedevil

  1. To torment mercilessly; plague.
  2. To worry, annoy, or frustrate.
  3. To possess with or as if with a devil; bewitch.

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  1. To torment mercilessly; plague.
  2. To worry, annoy, or frustrate.
  3. To possess with or as if with a devil; bewitch.

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• bait

  1. Food or other lure placed on a hook or in a trap and used in the taking of fish, birds, or other animals.
  2. Something, such as a worm, used for this purpose.
  3. An enticement, temptation, or provocation:

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  1. Food or other lure placed on a hook or in a trap and used in the taking of fish, birds, or other animals.
  2. Something, such as a worm, used for this purpose.
  3. An enticement, temptation, or provocation:

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• annoy

  1. To cause irritation to (another); make somewhat angry.
  2. To harass or disturb by repeated attacks.

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  1. To cause irritation to (another); make somewhat angry.
  2. To harass or disturb by repeated attacks.

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To excite (another) by exposing something desirable while keeping it out of reach

• tantalize

  1. To excite by exposing something desirable that remains or is made difficult or impossible to obtain:
  2. To be strongly attractive to; excite the senses or desire of:

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  1. To excite by exposing something desirable that remains or is made difficult or impossible to obtain:
  2. To be strongly attractive to; excite the senses or desire of:

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• bait

  1. Food or other lure placed on a hook or in a trap and used in the taking of fish, birds, or other animals.
  2. Something, such as a worm, used for this purpose.
  3. An enticement, temptation, or provocation:

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  1. Food or other lure placed on a hook or in a trap and used in the taking of fish, birds, or other animals.
  2. Something, such as a worm, used for this purpose.
  3. An enticement, temptation, or provocation:

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