molester

English

Etymology

From 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. One who molests.

Derived terms

• Chester the molester
• 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

• Audio:

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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.