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🇰🇷Korean Source WordCode: KO

괴롭히는 사람

Pronunciation / Transliteration: goerop-hineun saram

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Harasser/ˈhær.əs.ər/
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🇰🇷 Example Sentence in Korean:

"직장은 괴롭히는 사람에 대해 엄중히 대처했다."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A person who subjects another to continuous annoying, intimidating, or aggressive pressure, especially in the workplace, online, or in public spaces.

    "The company established a strict zero-tolerance policy against any identified harasser."
  2. 2

    Someone who repeatedly pesters, stalks, or troubles another person maliciously.

    "Law enforcement took immediate action to protect the victim from the persistent harasser."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the verb 'harass', which traces back via Middle French 'harasser' (to tire out, vex, or exhaust) from the Old French root 'haraer' (to set dogs on, derived from 'hare', a hunting cry). Over the centuries, the meaning shifted from physical exhaustion in hunting and combat contexts to persistent torment, intimidation, and psychological or sexual pressure in modern legal and social domains.

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