Harass is associated with overwhelming or bothering.
To harass is to harm or intoxicate with cough ( poison , poison ), according to the first meaning of the term mentioned by the Royal Spanish Academy ( RAE ) in its dictionary. The most common use of the concept, however, is associated with pressuring or overwhelming someone .
For example: "The company's strategy consists of harassing debtors with telephone calls, visits and judicial notifications" , "As a coach, I try not to harass the players with instructions in the middle of games" , "I think we should not harass to children with so many academic and extracurricular obligations.”
Examples of harass
When a person is harassed, they feel overwhelmed by the pressure that someone exerts on them or that is generated by a certain concern or requirement. Suppose a singer divorces her husband in the midst of an infidelity scandal. The news causes many media outlets to want to have the figure's testimony. Thus, when she leaves her house, dozens of journalists approach her violently and ask her many questions at the same time, placing microphones next to her face and photographing her constantly. This attitude of the press workers only harasses the singer, who tries to escape the harassment .
Financial problems can also plague a person. A man can feel overwhelmed when he owes money to three different banks, has no job, and must pay rent on his house to avoid being homeless. The discomfort can even be physical , with headaches, stomach problems and neck pain, to name a few possibilities.
The action of harassing generates annoyance or anger in the other.
Synonyms
The numerous synonyms that we can find for the term in dictionaries can be of great help to understand the nuances of its meaning and its applications.
Let's look at some of them below : flog, harass , incite, harass, tire, goad, annoy, tire, harass, pester, annoy, urge, insist, annoy, attack, oppress , urge, oblige, warn and urge . On the other hand, two of its antonyms are calm and calm .
From this long list we can focus on the most common words, those that are usually part of everyday speech, to explain in more depth the sensations that characterize the action of harassing. Perhaps the term bother is the broadest of all those exposed in the previous paragraph, and that is why it is appropriate to understand what group of reactions a person goes through when they are harassed.
Insistence is another of the traits of harassment; for example, if an individual stuns another with a series of questions, without taking into account the effect this has on him and repeating his speech unnecessarily or too frequently. There are certain nuances that separate the insistence that seeks to encourage someone to do something they like and are interested in and that which generates annoyance, a burden .
Harass and overwhelm
If we focus on the verb to oppress, also present in the previous list, we can explain the feeling of suffocation that harassment usually generates in the person who receives it. It is an inability to think clearly, a lack of oxygen (both figuratively and literally), which can also be described with the notions of overwhelm, anguish or suffocation.
As a consequence of this action, a state of fatigue occurs, generally characterized by a lack of clarity when making decisions. Harassing someone is subjecting them to a situation that is not pleasant to them; Although it is not always done intentionally, the results can be equally negative. When the cause is a loved one, there is at least the possibility of asking them to stop; In the business sphere, protocol makes things difficult.