Harry
['hærɪ] or ['hæri]
Definition
(verb.) make a pillaging or destructive raid on (a place), as in wartimes.
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Definition
(v. t.) To strip; to lay waste; as, the Northmen came several times and harried the land.
(v. t.) To agitate; to worry; to harrow; to harass.
(v. i.) To make a predatory incursion; to plunder or lay waste.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Worry, annoy, molest, plague, torment, trouble, tease, vex, harass, fret, gall, chafe, bore, incommode, disturb.
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Definition
v.t. to plunder: to ravage: to destroy: to harass:—pr.p. harr′ying; pa.p. harr′ied.—n. Harr′ier one who or that which harries: a kind of hawk so named from its harrying or destroying small animals.—Harrying or Harrowing of hell the spoiling of hell the delivery by Christ upon His descent into hell after the crucifixion of the souls of patriarchs and prophets there held in bondage by Satan (1 Pet. iii. 19)—a favourite subject of Christian art and of our own medieval writers of Mysteries.
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Examples
- The former now held out his hand to Harry Maylie; and hearty salutations were exchanged between them. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Farewell, Harry! Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- After more communing with herself next day, she arrived at the desperate conclusion of consulting Harry. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- No,' said Harry; 'to hear you repeat it, if you will--finally repeat it! Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- It was that in which Harry Montague, after a sad, almost monosyllabic scene of parting with Miss Dyas, bade her good-bye, and turned to go. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Harry as the Saracen should strut a bit more, and John needn't holler his inside out. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Smith, and a battalion under Harry Wayne. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- That St Withold's of Burton is an owlet's nest worth the harrying. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
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