figurative. The action of worrying and harassing; persistent annoyance, persecution, torment.

The action of troubling or harassing; trouble, distress, annoyance.

In early use: difficulty, affliction, tribulation. Later: persistent annoyance or injury; harassment; an instance of this.

Persecution; ill-treatment; (also) an annoyance. Obsolete.

The action of aggrieving; troubling or annoying; oppression. Now somewhat rare.

The action of vex, v. (in various senses); vexation; an instance of this. Also: the state of being vexed.

gen. The action of harassing a person or thing; the condition of being harassed; intentional annoyance, hostile interference; †vexation, distress (obs…

Disturbance, molestation.

The action of inquieting, disturbing, or molesting; the fact or condition of being inquieted; = inquieting, n.

Disturbance, molestation.

= infestation, n.

Molestation, disturbance. Obsolete.

The action of harassing, troubling, etc., a person; molestation. Also: †annoyance, injury (obsolete).

The action of troubling or harassing a person by aggression or interference, spec. (and now chiefly) by unjustifiable claims or vexatious legal…

The action of disturbing or molesting; the condition of being disturbed or disquieted.

= inquietation, n.

Trouble, affliction.

The action of infesting, assailing, harassing, or persistently molesting; now used esp. of insects which attack plants, grain, etc. in large swarms…

Toil, hard work, drudgery; worry, distress, restlessness; stirring about, turmoil, turbulent motion. Also with about.

The action of pestering or fact of being pestered; annoyance, worry, trouble; †overcrowding, encumbrance (obsolete). Now rare (English regional (nor…

Molestation; an instance of this.

Harassment.

The action of the verb.

The action of harassing, or the fact of being harassed; vexation, worry.

The state of being aggrieved; an instance of this.

The action of badger, v.2; persistent harassment or persecution; pestering, nagging; an instance of this.

The action of pestering; that which pesters or troubles; botheration.

Maddening or bewildering trouble.

The action of harassing, pestering, or distressing.

the twisting of a tail or tails; (a) literal in the fur-trade; (b) in political slang, the act of ‘twisting the lion's tail’: see lion, n. 2g; (c) in…

Relentless pursuit; harassment, hounding.

colloquial. Aggressive behaviour, harassment; (also) trouble or disturbance caused by this. Cf. aggro, n. adj.

slang (originally U.S.). figurative and in allusive use. Someone or something regarded as meaningless, worthless, or as a cause of interference…

Originally and chiefly U.S. Harassment; abuse, insolence. Frequently in to take crap (from), to give (a person) crap.

Trouble or disturbance caused by aggressive behaviour; aggravation; harassment.

colloquial (originally Australian). The action of harassing, criticizing, or defaming a person, etc.; an instance of this.