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harried

[har-ee]

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verb (used with object)

to harass, annoy, or prove a nuisance to by or as if by repeated attacks; worry: He was harried by constant doubts.

to ravage, as in war; devastate: The troops harried the countryside.

verb (used without object)

to make harassing incursions.

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a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.

a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc.

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Origin:
before 900; Middle English herien, Old English her(g)ian (derivative of here army); cognate with German verheeren, Old Norse herja to harry, lay waste

Related forms

un·har·ried, adjective

Synonyms
1. molest, plague, trouble. 2. plunder, strip, rob, pillage.

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It is a far cry from the harried exit instructions given during a typical hospital discharge.

Certainly not harried interview committee members who barely remember who you are.

The guests complained, and the hosts looked harried.

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It is a far cry from the harried exit instructions given during a typical hospital discharge.

Certainly not harried interview committee members who barely remember who you are.

The guests complained, and the hosts looked harried.

Living at the edge of such a lake-if only for a few days-does good things for the harried city soul.

The harried young executive was engaged in one of the more despised forms of mobile-phone behavior.

Harried applicants may object that some of my suggestions require extra time and effort.

Now-he waves his ruler-they have been driven into the remotest jungle, or across the border, and are harried even there.

Harried seniors facing deadlines on theses often take a gut to lighten an otherwise oppressive course load.

Now, with the harried application process behind me, those calculations are front and center.

Harried nurses barked orders for the pharmacy to send more drugs.

My advisors often seemed harried and preoccupied anyway.

Certainly not harried interview-committee members who barely remember who you are.

Far better to act perpetually harried and to speak exclusively of one's research.

For the harried business traveler, you can buy a cashmere blindfold and sock set for.

In sweat-stained shirts, fuelled by stale coffee and cold pizza, harried officials worked the phones and held.

Some proponents of murder theories had previously suggested a harried and rushed embalming process.

Your favorite coffee shop is crowded with harried people, and you are standing shoulder to shoulder in a slow-moving line.

Closely watched by their guides and military escort, harried biologists survey the wild things that survive there.

What's more, a wealth of evidence suggests that sedentary living is more likely to off you than a harried cabbie.

Harried people surge through its concourses and tunnels in perpendicular lines, mean salmon in puffy coats going always upstream.

The only consolation to harried diplomats and their fearful interlocutors is that another leak on this scale seems unlikely.

And harried two-income families increasingly look to restaurants as locations to gather, relax and entertain themselves.

The service can be harried and the plates mismatched, but the prices are reasonable and the payoff substantial.

Acconci designed a waiting area where harried travelers can hide within huge curls that peel from the building's terrazzo floor.

Don't risk losing precious points by making a harried reviewer flip through dozens of pages to find your answers.

He has a prickly relationship with the media, which have harried his government for inertia and alleged corruption.

It targets harried consumers who always pay their credit card bills on time.

But the opposition was constantly harried by the police, who often found reasons to ban heralded rallies.

Their patrols are constantly harried by teen-agers who pelt them with stones or try to steal their equipment.

Children grew up eating them long before the advent of the harried family with two working parents.

Today's harried hub-and-spoke system may soon seem calm in comparison.

Abandoned by his wife years ago, a harried fireman struggles to raise his five boys on his own.

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Word Origin & History

Harry

male personal name, a familiar form of Henry (q.v.). Weekley takes the overwhelming number of Harris, Harrison surnames as evidence that "Harry," not "Henry," was the M.E. pronunciation of Henry. Also cf. Harriet, Eng. equivalent of Fr. Henriette, fem. dim. of Henri. Nautical

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slang Harriet Lane "preserved meat" (1896) refers to a famous murder victim whose killer allegedly chopped up her body. The Harris in Harris tweed (1892) is from the name of the southern section of the island of Lewis with Harris in the Outer Hebrides; originally it referred to fabric produced by the inhabitants there, later a proprietary name.

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"Twenty thousand thieves landed at Hastings. These founders of the House of Lords were greedy and ferocious dragoons, sons of greedy and ferocious pirates. They were all alike, they took everything they could carry, they burned, harried, violated, tortured, and killed until everything English was brought to the verge of ruin. Such, however, is the illusion of antiquity and wealth, that decent and dignified men now existing boast their descent from these filthy thieves, who showed a far juster conviction of their own merits, by assuming for their types the swine, goat, jackal, leopard, wolf, and snake, which they severally resembled."

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