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Verb harries, harrying, harried
harry - make a pillaging or destructive raid on (a place), as in wartimes
		ravage
		destroy, ruin put (an animal) to death; "The customs agents destroyed the dog that was found to be rabid"; "the sick cat had to be put down"
harry - annoy continually or chronically; "He is known to harry his staff when he is overworked"; "This man harasses his female co-workers"
		harass, hassle, chivy, chivvy, chevy, chevvy, beset, plague, molest, provoke
		annoy, rile, nettle, devil, nark, irritate, gravel, get to, get at, vex, chafe, rag, bother cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations; "Mosquitoes buzzing in my ear really bothers me"; "It irritates me that she never closes the door after she leaves"
		needle, goad goad or provoke,as by constant criticism; "He needled her with his sarcastic remarks"
		bedevil, frustrate, torment, crucify, dun, rag torment emotionally or mentally
		haze harass by imposing humiliating or painful tasks, as in military institutions

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harry (v. t.)
To strip; to lay waste; as, the Northmen came several times and harried the land.
harry (v. t.)
To agitate; to worry; to harrow; to harass.
harry (v. i.)
To make a predatory incursion; to plunder or lay waste.

harry
har′i, 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. [A.S. hergian, from A.S. here, gen. herg-es, an army; Ger. heer.]