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hassle

 : 
Noun, Verb (usu participle)
 : 
has=sle

CIDE DICTIONARY

hasslen. 
  •  An inconvenience caused by difficulties encountered trying to accomplish a task; as, finding a parking place in midtown is always a hassle.  [WordNet 1.5]
  •  disorderly fighting; an angry dispute or disturbance.  [WordNet 1.5]
hasslev. i. 
  •  to dispute or quarrel, often over petty disagreements.  [PJC]
  •  To expend excessive time and energy trying to accomplish a task.  [PJC]
hasslev. t. 
     to repeatedly annoy; as, He is known to hassle his staff when he is overworked.  [WordNet 1.5]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

hassle, n. & v. colloq.
--n.
1 a prolonged trouble or inconvenience.
2 an argument or involved struggle.
--v.
1 tr. harass, annoy; cause trouble to.
2 intr. argue, quarrel.

Etymology
20th c.: orig. dial.

THESAURUS

hassle

ado, agonize, altercation, anarchy, apologetics, apologia, apology, argue, argufy, argument, argumentation, bandy words, barney, battle, beef, bicker, bickering, bother, brawl, broil, brouhaha, buffet, bug, bump heads, carp at, casuistry, cavil, chaos, choplogic, clamor, commotion, confusion, contend, contention, contest, controversy, cross swords, cut and thrust, defense, discept, disputation, dispute, disturbance, donnybrook, donnybrook fair, dustup, embroilment, endeavor, essay, fabulous formless darkness, fight, flyting, foofaraw, foul-up, fracas, free-for-all, fret at, fuss, fuss at, give and take, grunt and sweat, have it out, helter-skelter, henpeck, hubbub, huff and puff, hurly-burly, join issue, knock-down-and-drag-out, license, litigation, lock horns, logomachize, logomachy, make a row, melee, miff, misrule, mix-up, moot, morass, muddle, nag, nibble at, niggle, paper war, passage of arms, peck at, pell-mell, pester, pettifog, pick at, pick on, plead, polemic, polemicize, polemics, polemize, pother, quibble, racket, rampage, rhubarb, riot, rough-and-tumble, roughhouse, row, ruckus, ruction, rumpus, run-in, scramble, scrap, screw-up, scuffle, set-to, shindy, snafu, spar, squabble, stir, strive, striving, struggle, take sides, thrash out, to-do, trial, trouble, try, try conclusions, tumult, turmoil, tussle, undertaking, uproar, verbal engagement, war of words, whirl, wrangle, wrangling, wrestle, yap at

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