Meaning

4 senses
  1. (transitive)To trouble, to bother, to annoy.

    The unlucky boy was hassled by a gang of troublemakers on his way home.

    ärgern, nerven, plagen

    донима́тьdonimátʹ, надоеда́тьnadojedátʹ, докуча́тьdokučátʹ

    annoy continually or chronically

  2. (transitive)To pick a fight or start an argument with.

    provozieren

    спо́ритьspóritʹ, ссо́ритьсяssóritʹsja

  3. (transitive)To work through something troublesome; to be bothered by.

    If you don't want to hassle through converting formats, you'll have to stick with one program.

  4. (slang)To engage in a mock dogfight.

Examples

27 sentences
  1. Tom needs to stop hassling Mary.

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  2. I wish Tom wouldn't keep hassling me.

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  3. It's a hassle to take the husks off of chestnuts.

    deKastanienschälen ist eine Schererei.

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  4. It's a hassle trying to decide what to wear to the party.

    ruХлопотно пытаться решить, что надеть на вечеринку.

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  5. I don't want any hassles.

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Translations

6 languages
Русский
By meaning 2
To trouble, to bother, to annoy:
To pick a fight or start an argument:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
To trouble, to bother, to annoy:
To pick a fight or start an argument:

Origin

Unknown. Probably from US Southern dialectal hassle (“to pant, breathe noisily”), possibly

Unknown. Probably from US Southern dialectal hassle (“to pant, breathe noisily”), possibly from haste + -le (frequentative suffix).

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Forms

hassles, hassling, hassled, hassled
Base formhassle · to hassle
3rd person singularhassles
Present participlehassling
Past simplehassled
Past participlehassled

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyhassle
he, she, ithassles

Past simpleLesson

all personshassled

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave hassled
he, she, ithas hassled

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill hassle

Synonyms

85 synonyms

Word family

2 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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