English to afrikaans meaning of

Die woordeboekdefinisie van die woord "teister" is om iemand aan aggressiewe druk of intimidasie te onderwerp, dikwels herhaaldelik, met die doel om benoudheid of skade te veroorsaak. Dit kan ook beteken om iemand aanhoudend te irriteer of pla of om aanhoudend en oormatig na te jaag.

Sentence Examples

  1. He established and created an alguacil of the poor, not to harass them, but to examine them and see whether they really were so for many a sturdy thief or drunkard goes about under cover of a make-believe crippled limb or a sham sore.
  2. Fresh out of clues and short on suspects to harass, I returned to the Nikitin place on Racine.
  3. Dantès observed, however, that Faria, in spite of the relief his society afforded, daily grew sadder one thought seemed incessantly to harass and distract his mind.
  4. But, if I deny the authority of the State when it presents its tax-bill, it will soon take and waste all my property, and so harass me and my children without end.
  5. They always find something to harass someone about , she thought.
  6. For what dread of want or poverty that can reach or harass the student can compare with what the soldier feels, who finds himself beleaguered in some stronghold mounting guard in some ravelin or cavalier, knows that the enemy is pushing a mine towards the post where he is stationed, and cannot under any circumstances retire or fly from the imminent danger that threatens him?