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harasser

French, verb/a.ʁa.se/

harasser is a French verb meaning “to exhaust, to wear out” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Fatiguer à l’excès, éreinter”.

What does harasser mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to exhaust, to wear out

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

verb: 1. Fatiguer à l’excès, éreinter.

verb: 1. Faire une poëlée de châtaignes dans une harassoire.

The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.

Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of harasser

  • avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
  • harassant gerund participle present
  • ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
  • harassé participle past
  • harasse first-person indicative present
  • harasses indicative present second-person
  • harassons first-person indicative plural
  • harassez indicative plural present
  • harassent indicative plural present
  • harassais first-person imperfect indicative
  • harassait imperfect indicative singular
  • harassions first-person imperfect indicative
  • harassiez imperfect indicative plural
  • harassaient imperfect indicative plural
  • harassai first-person historic indicative
  • harassas historic indicative past
  • harassa historic indicative past
  • harassâmes first-person historic indicative

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce harasser?

  • /a.ʁa.se/
  • ^((h aspiré))\a.ʁa.se\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

How common is harasser in French?

harasser appears about once in every 47 million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).