molest
verb (used with object)
to make indecent sexual advances to.
had molested
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past perfectof molest.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Jackson, who died in 2009, was found not guilty in 2005 of charges alleging he had molested a boy.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 20, 2019
No one had molested me or been inappropriate with me.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2015
For a brief but emotional moment, Jessa Seewald and Jill Dillard spoke out on Wednesday night about the allegations that their brother, Josh, had molested five underage girls as a teen.
From Time ● Jun. 4, 2015
The senior Conservative told the Guardian she was "shocked, surprised, startled, disgusted" by the revelations that Savile had molested patients in high-security care, adding that the reports were "upsetting for everyone involved".
From The Guardian ● Jun. 26, 2014
Neither the "boll-worm" nor the dreaded "army-worm" had molested the river-fields; so the tall pyramidal plants were thickly set with "squares" and green egg-shaped bolls, smooth and shining as with varnish.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science October, 1877. Vol XX - No. 118 by Various
