molester

English

Etymology

molest +‎ -er

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /məˈlɛstɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /məˈlɛstə(ɹ)/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɛstə(ɹ)
• Hyphenation: mo‧lest‧er

Noun

molester (plural molesters)

1. Agent noun of molest: one who molests.

Derived terms

• child molester

Translations

one who molests

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 痴漢／痴汉 (zh) (chīhàn)

• Finnish: ahdistelija (fi)
• French: violeur (fr), agresseur (fr)
• Italian: molestatore (it) m
• Japanese: 痴漢 (ja) (ちかん, chikan)
• Korean: 치한 (ko) (chihan)
• Macedonian: на́пасник m (nápasnik), на́силник m (násilnik)
• Russian: хулига́н (ru) m (xuligán), хулига́нка (ru) f (xuligánka), растли́тель (ru) m (rastlítelʹ), растли́тельница (ru) f (rastlítelʹnica)
• Swedish: antastare (sv) c

Verb

molester (third-person singular simple present molesters, present participle molestering, simple past and past participle molestered)

1. (rare, nonstandard) Alternative form of molest
   • 2000, "The Wacky Molestation Adventure" (season 4, episode 16), South Park

     Kyle: I wish I didn't have any parents!

     Cartman: Well, you could make them go away for a while.

     Kyle: How?

     Cartman: Well, I mean, you could call the police and have them take your parents away.

     Stan: The police?

     Cartman: Yeah! I saw it on TV. All you gotta do is call the police, and say that your parents both molestered you.

     Kyle: What's that?

     Cartman: I don't know, but it works. When I wanted to get rid of my mom's last boyfriend, I just called the police, and said he was molestering me, and I haven't seen him for three months.

Anagrams

• telomers

Danish

Verb

molester

1. imperative of molestere

French

Pronunciation

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Verb

molester

1. to molest
2. to maul

Conjugation

Conjugation of molester (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	molester
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	molestant /mɔ.lɛs.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		molesté /mɔ.lɛs.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	moleste /mɔ.lɛst/	molestes /mɔ.lɛst/	moleste /mɔ.lɛst/	molestons /mɔ.lɛs.tɔ̃/	molestez /mɔ.lɛs.te/	molestent /mɔ.lɛst/
	imperfect	molestais /mɔ.lɛs.tɛ/	molestais /mɔ.lɛs.tɛ/	molestait /mɔ.lɛs.tɛ/	molestions /mɔ.lɛs.tjɔ̃/	molestiez /mɔ.lɛs.tje/	molestaient /mɔ.lɛs.tɛ/
	past historic2	molestai /mɔ.lɛs.te/	molestas /mɔ.lɛs.ta/	molesta /mɔ.lɛs.ta/	molestâmes /mɔ.lɛs.tam/	molestâtes /mɔ.lɛs.tat/	molestèrent /mɔ.lɛs.tɛʁ/
	future	molesterai /mɔ.lɛs.tə.ʁe/	molesteras /mɔ.lɛs.tə.ʁa/	molestera /mɔ.lɛs.tə.ʁa/	molesterons /mɔ.lɛs.tə.ʁɔ̃/	molesterez /mɔ.lɛs.tə.ʁe/	molesteront /mɔ.lɛs.tə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	molesterais /mɔ.lɛs.tə.ʁɛ/	molesterais /mɔ.lɛs.tə.ʁɛ/	molesterait /mɔ.lɛs.tə.ʁɛ/	molesterions /mɔ.lɛs.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	molesteriez /mɔ.lɛs.tə.ʁje/	molesteraient /mɔ.lɛs.tə.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	moleste /mɔ.lɛst/	molestes /mɔ.lɛst/	moleste /mɔ.lɛst/	molestions /mɔ.lɛs.tjɔ̃/	molestiez /mɔ.lɛs.tje/	molestent /mɔ.lɛst/
	imperfect2	molestasse /mɔ.lɛs.tas/	molestasses /mɔ.lɛs.tas/	molestât /mɔ.lɛs.ta/	molestassions /mɔ.lɛs.ta.sjɔ̃/	molestassiez /mɔ.lɛs.ta.sje/	molestassent /mɔ.lɛs.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	moleste /mɔ.lɛst/	—	molestons /mɔ.lɛs.tɔ̃/	molestez /mɔ.lɛs.te/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Further reading

• “molester”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.