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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.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Harried" Quotes from Famous Books



... of life, that lurk So close, to seize your harried prey! Ye fiends of Custom, Gold, and Work, I ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 8, No. 47, September, 1861 • Various

... himself. Strange and amorphous, she must go yearning on through the trouble, like a warm, glowing cloud blown in the middle of a storm. She felt so rich, in her warm vagueness, that her soul cried out on him, because he harried her ...
— The Rainbow • D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

... yearned for, and when at last they dropped from the dizzy height of their castles in cloudland their whole world, era, and ideal was shattered. Unavailing remorse, impotent rage, spiritual and intense physical exhaustion completed their demoralization. The more harried and reckless among them became frenzied. Turning first against their rulers, then against one another, they finally started upon a work of wanton destruction relieved by no creative idea. It was at this time-point that they endeavored to join hands with ...
— The Inside Story Of The Peace Conference • Emile Joseph Dillon

... we must go back to the Rmoahal days. It will be remembered that that portion of the race which inhabited the north-eastern coasts alone retained its purity of blood. Harried on their southern borders and driven further north by the Tlavatli warriors, they began to overflow to the neighbouring land to the east, and to the still nearer promontory of Greenland. In the second map period no pure Rmoahals were left on the then reduced mother-continent, but ...
— The Story of Atlantis and the Lost Lemuria • W. Scott-Elliot

... closed his eyes, holding his great gray head the while a little to one side in a listening attitude. Long he sat there, a great, time-bitten devotee at the shrine of his comfort; and presently the harried look left his strong, kind face and was replaced by a little prescient smile—the sort of smile worn by one who through bitter years has sought something very, very precious and ...
— The Valley of the Giants • Peter B. Kyne


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