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Harried   /hˈɛrid/   Listen
verb
Harry  v. t.  (past & past part. harried; pres. part. harrying)  
1.
To strip; to pillage; to lay waste; as, the Northmen came several times and harried the land. "To harry this beautiful region." "A red squirrel had harried the nest of a wood thrush."
2.
To agitate; to worry; to harrow; to harass.
Synonyms: To ravage; plunder; pillage; lay waste; vex; tease; worry; annoy; harass.


Harry  v. i.  To make a predatory incursion; to plunder or lay waste. (Obs.)


adjective
harried  adj.  Same as harassed.
Synonyms: annoyed, harassed, pestered.





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"Harried" Quotes from Famous Books



... these amenities, Mr. Bayley would still be asked to supper, and Laura would still be pelted and harried from ...
— Helbeck of Bannisdale, Vol. II • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... misfortune, of war an Englishman, one Sir John Stone, riding that way with his band of marauders, little better than licensed brigands, found Amboise too tough a nut for his teeth, and harried the Calvets in pure wantonness. Over the tree-tops the garrison of Amboise could see the smoke of the burning, but they were too ...
— The Justice of the King • Hamilton Drummond
... and harried her, and walked upon her body lying in the dust, but they had lost her and had gone back to their hovels to eat and sleep, and maybe once more cast up the reckoning of the money she owed them, the which—she swore the most horrible ...
— The Hawk of Egypt • Joan Conquest
... as he flung down his paper and strode out into the other room. And those exits, I remembered, were getting to be a bit of a habit with my harried old Diddums. ...
— The Prairie Child • Arthur Stringer
... of the mill came the thunder of rolling barrels of sugar, and (prison-like sounds) there was a great rattling of chains as the mules were harried with stimulant imprecations to their places by the waggon-tongues. A little vicious "dummy" engine, with a train of flat cars in tow, stewed and fumed on the plantation tap of the narrow-gauge railroad, and a toiling, hurrying, hallooing stream of workers were dimly seen in the half darkness loading ...
— Roads of Destiny • O. Henry


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