to pester
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3.2
- verb
- /ˈpɛstər/
:
molestar
- He's been pestering me all night about you.
- annoy and pester
You're, you're training us that we need to just pester Gabe over m.twosupport.
- You're, you're training us that we need to just pester Gabe over m.twosupport.
- So in school, we make people do study and do their things, but not to pester them by asking too many questions.
- Not wanting to pester someone because you're worried that if you do, you will lose your value in their eyes.
- Why are you stalking your ex friend who you've literally she's put she's she's admitting just to pester me.
Examples
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If you keep pestering him for the details, he might just stop sharing anything at all.
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"I'm trying not to think about it," I say, "but Carmen is pestering me about a gift."
Fiction book (2000) -
So in school, we make people do study and do their things, but not to pester them by asking too many questions.
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Did I pester you for it back?
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I pester your mom for information as often as she'll give it to me.
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I just came in to tell you I'm not gonna come around and pester you anymore.
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And so I would constantly pester her with emails about this or that and ask her what she thought of it.
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Teachers also discussed how these students would pester other students repeatedly.
Academic text (2014) -
Will you stop pestering me?
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I liked her instantly and, in my usual way, pestered her for help with my writing.
Fiction book (1998)
Synonyms
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1.0
To annoy or disturb someone
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2.0
To disturb or interrupt someone and make them feel annoyed
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4.0
Annoy someone again and again to make them feel worried or uncomfortable
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1.0
Make someone slightly angry or bothered by small repeated actions
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1.9
To make fun of someone in a way that annoys them
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3.6
Annoy someone again and again to make them react
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3.7
To annoy someone by bothering them repeatedly
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2.9
Make someone feel annoyed or impatient, often by repeated small actions
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7.5
To annoy someone by criticizing them again and again
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6.1
To follow and bother someone without stopping
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4.4
To bother someone again and again
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5.6
To give someone many questions or messages quickly
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4.7
To annoy someone by asking them the same thing many times
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6.7
Talk again and again about the same thing and annoy people
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7.8
To surround a person with many requests and questions
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2.6
To keep criticizing or telling someone to do things in an annoying way
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4.9
To bother someone again and again until they feel angry
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5.9
Make someone very annoyed by doing the same thing again and again
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7.6
To bother someone again and again so they feel upset or tired
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7.8
To send a large fast stream of questions or messages to someone
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9.6
To ask someone again and again for something in an annoying way
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8.6
To trouble or annoy someone again and again
To keep asking or complaining to make someone do something
To annoy someone by asking or reminding them again and again
To annoy someone again and again with small problems
To shout for something loudly and repeatedly
Antonyms
Compounds
How Annoying
Surface Forms
Etymology
Pester comes from the same idea as the English word pest and from an old word pestis meaning 'plague'. Think of a small, unwanted pest that keeps coming back and causing trouble, so to pester someone is to annoy them again and again.