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Molest Word Mə'Lest V.骚扰 Big Dog Afraid 我们没有去惊扰那只大狗,因为我们怕它

Front molest
Pron [mə'lest]
Back 【molest】
v.骚扰
We did not molest the big dog, because we were afraid of him.
我们没有去惊扰那只大狗,因为我们怕它。
Vocab
molestharass or assault sexually; make indecent advances to

To molest someone is to attack or abuse them. A rowdy group of protesters might be tempted to molest the police officers who are controlling the crowd by shouting angrily or throwing things at them.

While the verb molest can be used to talk about any kind of persistent harassment, it more commonly describes an unwanted or aggressive sexual attack. To molest someone in this in way is a very serious criminal assault. The word originally meant simply "to cause trouble or grief," and it comes from the Latin word molestare, "to disturb, trouble, or annoy." It wasn't used to mean "attack sexually" until about 1950.

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