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单词 molest
释义 mo·lest
I. \məˈlest\ transitive verb
(-ed/-ing/-s)
Etymology: Middle English molesten, from Middle French molester, from Latin molestare, from molestus burdensome, annoying, irregular from moles mass — more at mole (structure)
1. obsolete
 a. : inconvenience, harass, plague
  < the heats of summer are … incapable of molesting you — Joseph Addison >
 b. : to affect injuriously : afflict
  < they were generally molested with … sciatica — Sir Thomas Browne >
2.
 a. : annoy, persecute, disturb, torment
  < painted in a loft, drawing up the ladder after him that he might not be molested by his family — Laurence Binyon >
  < leaders … should not be molested in any way nor should their party be outlawed — Sidney Hook >
 specifically : raid
  < traders turn to molesting the Spanish borderlands — R.A.Billington >
 b. : to meddle or interfere with unjustifiably often as a result of abnormal sexual motivation
  < charges of being drunk and molesting a woman — Frank Yerby >
  < molesting small boys in the washroom of a moving picture house — Wenzell Brown >
II. noun
(-s)
Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French moleste, irregular from Latin molestia trouble, from molestus + -ia -y
: molestation
 < within his walls, secure from all molest — W.J.Linton >
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