molest
pronunciation
How to pronounce molest in British English:
UK [məˈlest]
How to pronounce molest in American English:
US [məˈlɛst]
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- Verb:
- harass or assault sexually; make indecent advances to
- annoy continually or chronically
Word Origin
- molest (v.)
- late 14c., "to cause trouble, grief, or vexation," from Old French molester "to torment, trouble, bother" (12c.) and directly from Latin molestare "to disturb, trouble, annoy," from molestus "troublesome, annoying, unmanageable," perhaps related to moles "mass" (see mole (n.3)) on notion of either "burden" or "barrier." Meaning "sexually assault" first attested 1950. Related: Molested; molesting.
Example
- 1. Mr neil travelled asia as a language teacher while seeking boys to molest .
- 2. The regime 's thugs molest women as a form of political bullying and harassment of women in the streets rises to epidemic levels .
- 3. That you will do us no harm , just as we did not molest you but always treated you well and sent you away in peace .
- 4. Besides , the petty stricture of the kritik that ' thought and being are different ' can at most molest the path of the human mind from the thought of god to the certainty that he is : it cannot take it away .