molested

verb

Definition of molestednext
past tense of molest
as in violated

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for molested
  1. violated
  2. outraged
  3. bullied
  4. harassed
  5. abused
  6. harmed
  7. injured
  8. victimized
Verb
  • The distribution of Pandas in a Pennsylvania public school district led to a 2005 district court decision that determined the school board had violated the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.
    Samantha Riedel, Them, 4 Oct. 2024
  • And can anyone even count at this point how many times characters on this show have violated HIPAA?
    Ryan Schwartz, TVLine, 4 Oct. 2024
Definition of violated
Verb
  • Many Disney employees were outraged by the bill, and because the company’s largest theme park is based in the state, there was massive internal pressure on then-CEO Bob Chapek to speak out against it.
    Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 1 Oct. 2024
  • Vance is equally fluent in the language of the national élite, and therefore knows how to get the national media to cover his crazy theories, and how to get national people outraged by them.
    David Fontana, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2024
Definition of outraged
Verb
  • The defendant had told police that Connor was bullied and had threatened to take his life.
    Landon Mion, Fox News, 20 Oct. 2024
  • Attendance plummeted during the record-losing season, and the media bullied Reinsdorf, imploring him to cash out.
    Justin Kaufmann, Axios, 17 Oct. 2024
Definition of bullied
Verb
  • The very fact that Kohls was being harassed under the law demonstrates just one fatal problem with it.
    The Editors, National Review, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Willis will have to outsmart a Vikings defense that has harassed its opponents enough to rank, as gauged by advanced stats, as the league’s best.
    Andrew Greif, NBC News, 29 Sep. 2024
Definition of harassed
Verb
  • Bozanich, who did not believe that José Menendez abused the brothers, said that even if their account is accepted as true, they were still convicted of gunning down their parents in cold blood.
    Tim Stelloh, NBC News, 9 Nov. 2024
  • The dismissals by the social media giant targeted those who had consistently abused the system over an extended period.
    Jack Kelly, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
Definition of abused
Verb
  • Reports suggest that a few beach-goers were harmed by the jellyfish, including three people who were stung by Lion’s Mane in Galway.
    Gairika Mitra, Interesting Engineering, 19 Oct. 2024
  • Thankfully, no animals or people were harmed in the incident.
    EW.com, EW.com, 17 Oct. 2024
Definition of harmed
Verb
  • Authorities are investigating a shooting that left two people injured early Saturday morning in Union City.
    Jakob Rodgers, The Mercury News, 17 Nov. 2024
  • Kenney, who came to The Farm from Fargo, North Dakota but spent his first three years either injured or backing up current Los Angeles Rams kicker Joshua Karty, then nailed a career-best kick on Senior Day, sending the players and a small group of students storming onto the field.
    Harold Gutmann, The Mercury News, 16 Nov. 2024
Definition of injured
Verb
  • Our family has been victimized by this grotesque shockadrama.
    Tim Lammers, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024
  • Simmons previously agreed to the confessions of judgement as part of his individual settlements with Sil Lai Abrams, Sherri Abernathy and Wendy Carolina Franco, all of whom have alleged they were victimized by the Def Jam Records cofounder.
    Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 3 Sep. 2019
Definition of victimized
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