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Antonyms for harried

Grammar : Adj
Spell : har-ee
Phonetic Transcription : ˈhær i

Definition of harried

Origin :
  • Old English hergian "make war, lay waste, ravage, plunder," the word used in the "Anglo-Saxon Chronicle" for what the Vikings did to England, from Proto-Germanic verb *harohan (cf. Old Frisian urheria "lay waste, ravage, plunder," Old Norse herja "to make a raid, to plunder," Old Saxon and Old High German herion, German verheeren "to destroy, lay waste, devastate"), from *harjaz "an armed force" (cf. Old English here, Old Norse herr "crowd, great number; army, troop," Old Saxon and Old Frisian heri, Dutch heir, Old High German har, German Heer "host, army," Gothic harjis), from PIE root *koro- "war" (cf. Lithuanian karas "war, quarrel," karias "host, army;" Old Church Slavonic kara "strife;" Middle Irish cuire "troop;" Old Persian kara "host, people, army;" Greek koiranos "ruler, leader, commander"). Weakened sense of "worry, goad, harass" is from c.1400. Related: Harried; harrying.
  • adj pressured
Example sentences :
  • We have been harried, and chivied, and shot at until we are driven into such dens as this.
  • Extract from : « Micah Clarke » by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Every day Alfred harried me, threatened me: I had to obey him.
  • Extract from : « A Nest of Spies » by Pierre Souvestre
  • Her demands for money were constant: she harried her lover for money.
  • Extract from : « A Nest of Spies » by Pierre Souvestre
  • O'Shea was not sorry to have the excuse, and harried off to make his toilet.
  • Extract from : « One Of Them » by Charles James Lever
  • Ye've hounded me and harried me through th' woods all th' year!
  • Extract from : « Blazed Trail Stories » by Stewart Edward White
  • The official who came to the plate was as relaxed as the other had been harried.
  • Extract from : « Mezzerow Loves Company » by Floyd L. Wallace
  • In the summers they sailed back there and harried the coast.
  • Extract from : « Viking Tales » by Jennie Hall
  • The place is harried with illness; since I came there has been both fever and diphtheria there.
  • Extract from : « Robert Elsmere » by Mrs. Humphry Ward
  • The Turks, harried in their rear, attempted to regain the roads to Shumla.
  • Extract from : « A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year » by Edwin Emerson
  • And her equerry has been hurried back to look after her harried estate.
  • Extract from : « The Prairie Mother » by Arthur Stringer

Synonyms for harried

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