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# molest

«molest» in Mova's school dictionary: **to bother, annoy or attack someone, usually to harm them** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (molests, molested, molesting)

### meaning for a pupil

To molest is to bother, annoy or attack someone, usually to harm them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/molest/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

a wild animal that does not harm the sheep in a fable, showing that it chose to leave them alone

### examples

- The dog did not molest the hens. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/molest/#x1)
- Thieves came at night to molest the farm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/molest/#x2)
- The wolf would not molest the flock. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/molest/#x3)
- Do not molest the birds in their nest. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/molest/#x4)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «molest» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/molest/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.