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[syn: annoyed, harassed, harried, pestered, vexed]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
harried \harried\ adj.
same as harassed.
Syn: annoyed, harassed, pestered.
[WordNet 1.5]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Harry \Har"ry\ (-r[y^]), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Harried
(-r[i^]d); p. pr. & vb. n. Harrying.] [OE. harwen, herien,
her[yogh]ien, AS. hergian to act as an army, to ravage,
plunder, fr. here army; akin to G. heer, Icel. herr, Goth.
harjis, and Lith. karas war. Cf. Harbor, Herald,
Heriot.]
[1913 Webster]
1. To strip; to pillage; to lay waste; as, the Northmen came
several times and harried the land.
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To harry this beautiful region. --W. Irving.
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A red squirrel had harried the nest of a wood
thrush. --J.
Burroughs.
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2. To agitate; to worry; to harrow; to harass. --Shak.
Syn: To ravage; plunder; pillage; lay waste; vex; tease;
worry; annoy; harass.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
harried
adj 1: 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"
[syn: annoyed, harassed, harried, pestered,
vexed]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
28 Moby Thesaurus words for "harried":
badgered, baited, bedeviled, beset, bugged, bullyragged, chivied,
deviled, dogged, fretted, harassed, haunted, heckled, hectored,
hounded, needled, nipped at, persecuted, pestered, picked on,
plagued, ragged, teased, tormented, vexed, worried, worried sick,
worried stiff