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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
Harry
A male given name from Germanic languages, also used as a pet form of Henry and Harold.
(rare compared to given name) A patronymic surname.
harry (third-person singular simple present harries, present participle harrying, simple past and past participle harried) (transitive)
To plunder, pillage, assault.
To make repeated attacks on an enemy.
To strip, lay waste, ravage.
To harass, bother or distress with demands, threats, or criticism.
Source: Wiktionary
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
27 May 2025
(noun) the property of being directional or maintaining a direction; “the directionality of written English is from left to right”
Decaffeinated coffee comes from a chemical process that takes out caffeine from the beans. Pharmaceutical and soda companies buy the extracted caffeine.