distress vs harass

distress

verb
  • To cause strain or anxiety to someone. 

  • To treat a new object to give it an appearance of age. 

  • To retain someone’s property against the payment of a debt; to distrain. 

noun
  • A cause of such discomfort. 

  • The thing taken by distraining; that which is seized to procure satisfaction. 

  • Physical or emotional discomfort, suffering, or alarm, particularly of a more acute nature. 

  • Serious danger. 

  • A seizing of property without legal process to force payment of a debt. 

  • An aversive state of stress to which a person cannot fully adapt. 

harass

verb
  • To put excessive burdens upon (someone); to subject (someone) to anxieties. 

  • To persistently bother (someone, or a group of people) physically or psychologically when such behaviour is illegal and/or unwanted, especially over an extended period. 

  • To annoy (someone) frequently or systematically; to pester. 

  • To trouble (someone, or a group of people) through repeated military-style attacks. 

How often have the words distress and harass occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )