This is a comment a poster made to someone on a discussion,
Man, why are you hassling me so much this morning? I'm trying to open minds, bro
I wasn't sure about the meaning of hassle, and when looking up on Dictionary.com, it shows that the verbal meaning of hassle has two senses, one is
verb (used without object)
- to dispute or quarrel: children hassling over who has the most toys
and the other one is
verb (used with object)
- to bother, annoy, or harass: I'll do the work, so don't hassle me
I'm not sure which one to apply, because I don't know the meaning of use with/without object.
Best Answer
Use with or without an object refers to a verb's transitivity.
A verb with an object -- specifically, a direct object -- is used transitively and is in this circumstance called a transitive verb. The direct object is the noun or noun phrase which is affected by the action:
A verb without an object is used intransitively, and is called intransitive:
Some verbs take two objects, a direct object and an indirect object. The indirect object is the noun or noun phrase which receives the action or for whose benefit is done. These verbs are used bitransitively.
Note that object in all of these is syntactic category, not a semantic category: