Molest Definition

mə-lĕst
molested, molesting, molests
verb
molested, molesting, molests
To annoy, interfere with, or meddle with so as to trouble or harm, or with intent to trouble or harm.
Webster's New World
To subject (a child) to sexual contact.
American Heritage
To make improper advances to, esp. of a sexual nature.
Webster's New World
To subject (an adult) to unwanted sexual contact.
American Heritage
To assault or otherwise abuse (esp. a child) sexually.
Webster's New World
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Origin of Molest

  • From Middle English molesten, from Old French molester, from Latin molestare (“to trouble, annoy, molest"), from molestus (“troublesome"), from moles (“a burden, difficulty, labor, trouble"); see mole.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English molesten from Old French molester from Latin molestāre from molestus troublesome

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Molest Sentence Examples

  • There is one enormous boa, the maja (Epicrates angulifer), which feeds on pigs, goats and the like, but does not molest man.

  • Three times ' planes flew overhead, but always at a very great height, and they did not molest the ship.

  • They do not molest the Turks; for they are strictly enjoined never to attack the Turks save in self-defense.

  • For example, even many months after the beginning of the war advertisements were to be read in all the papers, in which English and French people offered to teach languages or instruct children even in English and French, stating their nationality and address - a proof that the authorities did not put any particular difficulties in the way of these foreign ers, and that the people did not take advantage of knowing their addresses to molest them.

  • It was essential in the old Greek rites of averting the Keres or djinns, the ill regulated ghosts who return to earth and molest the living, to abstain from flesh.

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