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Webster 1828 Edition

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Tiring; fatiguing; teasing.

harassing

harassing ‎(plural harassings)

harassment
- 1826, Charles Swan, Journal of a voyage up the Mediterranean
  Sometimes we observe these wretched peasants, driven to despair by the harassings of the Boyars, commit the useless imprudence of going to the capital, and, under the windows of the prince, with loud cries, require him to hear their claims.