molest
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
harass or assault sexually; make indecent advances to
Types & categories
- assault hypernym
Related & opposite
- molestation derivation
Sense 2 verb
annoy continually or chronically
He is known to harry his staff when he is overworked
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- harassment derivation
- provocation derivation
- plague derivation
- hassle derivation
- harrier derivation
- harasser derivation
- instigator derivation
- provocative derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | molestation |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | assault |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | harassment |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | provocation |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | plague |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | hassle |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | harrier |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | harasser |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | instigator |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | provocative |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | devil |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | needle |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | rag |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | haze |