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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

HAR'RY, v.t.
1. To strip; to pillage. [See Harrow.]
2. To harass; to agitate; to tease.
HAR'RY, v.i. To make harassing incursions.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: annoy continually or chronically; "He is known to harry his staff when he is overworked"; "This man harasses his female co-workers" [syn: harass, hassle, harry, chivy, chivvy, chevy, chevvy, beset, plague, molest, provoke]
2: make a pillaging or destructive raid on (a place), as in wartimes [syn: harry, ravage]

Merriam Webster's

transitive verb (harried; harrying) Etymology: Middle English harien, from Old English hergian; akin to Old High German heri?n to lay waste, heri army, Greek koiranos ruler Date: before 12th century 1. to make a pillaging or destructive raid on ; assault 2. to force to move along by harassing <harrying the terrified horses down out of the mountains — R. A. Sokolov> 3. to torment by or as if by constant attack Synonyms: see worry

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.tr. (-ies, -ied) 1 ravage or despoil. 2 harass, worry. Etymology: OE herian, hergian f. Gmc, rel. to OE here army

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Harry Har"ry, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Harried( ?); p. pr. & vb. n. Harrying.] [OF. harwen, herien, her[yogh]ien, AS. hergian 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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Harry Har"ry, v. i. To make a predatory incursion; to plunder or lay waste. [Obs.] --Beau. & Fl.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(harries, harrying, harried) If someone harries you, they keep bothering you or trying to get something from you. He is increasingly active in harrying the government in late-night debates. = badger, harass VERB: V n • harried ...harried businessmen scurrying from one crowded office to another. = harassed ADJ

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

v. a. 1. Pillage, plunder, rob, raid. 2. Worry, annoy, molest, plague, torment, trouble, tease, vex, harass, fret, gall, chafe, incommode, disturb, harrow.

1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

A country fellow. Cant.--Old Harry; the Devil.

Moby Thesaurus

aggravate, ambush, annoy, assail, assault, attack, badger, bait, be at, bedevil, beleaguer, beset, besiege, blitz, blockade, bother, bristle, brown off, bug, bullyrag, burn up, bushwhack, chivy, come at, come down on, crack down on, descend on, descend upon, devil, discompose, distemper, disturb, dog, encircle, encompass, envelop, exasperate, exercise, fall on, fall upon, fash, foray, fret, gang up on, get, gnaw, go at, go for, gripe, harass, haunt, have at, heckle, hector, hit, hit like lightning, hound, hunt, invest, irk, irritate, jump, land on, lay at, lay hands on, lay into, lay siege to, light into, maraud, miff, molest, mug, nag, needle, nettle, nudzh, oppress, peeve, persecute, perturb, pester, pick on, pique, pitch into, plague, pluck the beard, pother, pounce upon, pound, provoke, pursue, ride, rile, roil, ruffle, sail into, set on, set upon, soften up, strike, surprise, surround, swoop down on, take the offensive, tease, torment, try the patience, tweak the nose, upset, vex, victimize, wade into, worry