HARRIED

annoyed, harassed, harried, pestered, vexed

(adjective) troubled persistently especially with petty annoyances; “harassed working mothers”; “a harried expression”; “her poor pestered father had to endure her constant interruptions”; “the vexed parents of an unruly teenager”

HARRY

harry, ravage

(verb) make a pillaging or destructive raid on (a place), as in wartimes

harass, hassle, harry, chivy, chivvy, chevy, chevvy, beset, plague, molest, provoke

(verb) annoy continually or chronically; “He is known to harry his staff when he is overworked”; “This man harasses his female co-workers”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Adjective

harried

Stressed, rushed, panicked, overly busy or preoccupied.

Harassed.

Verb

harried

simple past tense and past participle of harry

Anagrams

• hardier, red hair

Source: Wiktionary


HARRY

Har"ry, v. t.. [imp. & p. p. Harried( ); p. pr. & vb. n. Harrying.] Etym: [OF. harwen, herien, her, AS. hergisn to act as an army, to ravage, plunder, fr. here army; akin to G. here army; akin to G. heer, Icel. herr, Goth. harjis, and Lith. karas war. Gf. Harbor, Herald, Heriot.]

1. To strip; to lay waste; as, the Northmen came several times and harried the land. To harry this beautiful region. W. Irving. A red squirrel had harried the nest of a wood thrush. J. Burroughs.

2. To agitate; to worry; to harrow; to harass. Shak.

Syn.

– To ravage; plunder; pillage; lay waste; vex; tease; worry; annoy; harass.

Har"ry, v. i..

Definition: To make a predatory incursion; to plunder or lay waste. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Word of the Day

25 December 2024

UNAMBIGUOUS

(adjective) having or exhibiting a single clearly defined meaning; “As a horror, apartheid...is absolutely unambiguous”- Mario Vargas Llosa


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