harass vs upset

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. 

upset

verb
  • To make (a person) angry, distressed, or unhappy. 

  • To be upset or knocked over. 

  • To shorten (a tire) in the process of resetting, originally by cutting it and hammering on the ends. 

  • To tip or overturn (something). 

  • To defeat unexpectedly. 

  • To thicken and shorten, as a heated piece of iron, by hammering on the end. 

  • To disturb, disrupt or adversely alter (something). 

noun
  • An upper set; a subset (X,≤) of a partially ordered set with the property that, if x is in U and x≤y, then y is in U. 

  • The dangerous situation where the flight attitude or airspeed of an aircraft is outside the designed bounds of operation, possibly resulting in loss of control. 

  • An unexpected victory of a competitor or candidate that was not favored to win. 

  • An overturn. 

  • Disturbance or disruption. 

  • An upset stomach. 

adj
  • Angry, distressed, or unhappy. 

  • Feeling unwell, nauseated, or ready to vomit. 

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