HARRY (harried)

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Irregular inflected form: harried   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does harry mean? 

• HARRY (verb)
  The verb HARRY has 2 senses:

1. annoy continually or chronically

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

  Familiarity information: HARRY used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HARRY (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they harry    ... he / she / it harries   
Past simple: harried   
Past participle: harried   
-ing form: harrying   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Annoy continually or chronically

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Synonyms:

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

Context example:

This man harasses his female co-workers

Hypernyms (to "harry" is one way to...):

annoy; bother; chafe; devil; get at; get to; gravel; irritate; nark; nettle; rag; rile; vex (cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "harry"):

goad; needle (annoy or provoke, as by constant criticism)

bedevil; crucify; dun; frustrate; rag; torment (treat cruelly)

haze (harass by imposing humiliating or painful tasks, as in military institutions)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Sentence example:

Sam cannot harry Sue

Derivation:

harrier (a persistent attacker)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

harry; ravage

Hypernyms (to "harry" is one way to...):

destroy; ruin (destroy completely; damage irreparably)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

I found them, camarades, at the Church of St. Denis in the harrying of Narbonne, and I took them away with me lest they fall into the hands of the wicked.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The down-coming winter was harrying them on to the lower levels, and it seemed they could never shake off this tireless creature that held them back.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

We encountered it well up to the forty-fourth parallel, in a raw and stormy sea across which the wind harried the fog-banks in eternal flight.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Harry was vastly pleased.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

It was filled with tropical fruits, wild chickens, and wild pigs, with an occasional herd of wild cattle, while high up among the peaks were herds of wild goats harried by packs of wild dogs.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

She whom I had known as the play actress of Anstey Cross became the dowager Lady Avon; whilst Boy Jim, as dear to me now as when we harried birds’ nests and tickled trout together, is now Lord Avon, beloved by his tenantry, the finest sportsman and the most popular man from the north of the Weald to the Channel.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It freezes the water to prevent it running to the sea; it drives the sap out of the trees till they are frozen to their mighty hearts; and most ferociously and terribly of all does the Wild harry and crush into submission man—man who is the most restless of life, ever in revolt against the dictum that all movement must in the end come to the cessation of movement.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

It was he, sire, who won the golden crown which Queen Philippa, your royal mother, gave to be jousted for by all the knights of England after the harrying of Calais.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I remember it, said Sir Nigel, laughing, and how you harried the cook down the street, and spoke of setting fire to the inn.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I have seen it before, when he harried us at Winchelsea.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)