harry
Plural: harries
Verb
Verb Forms: harried, harrying, harries
- To harass or annoy, or to make a destructive raid.
- annoy continually or chronically
- "He is known to harry his staff when he is overworked"
- make a pillaging or destructive raid on (a place), as in wartimes
- To plunder, pillage, assault.
- To make repeated attacks on an enemy.
- To strip, lay waste, ravage.
- To harass, bother or distress with demands, threats, or criticism.
Noun
- A menial servant; a sweeper.
Examples
- His constant blocking moves seemed to HARRY his opponent’s strategy in Words With Friends.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English herien, harien, from Old English herġian, from Proto-West Germanic *harjōn, from Proto-Germanic *harjōną, from *harjaz (“army”), from Proto-Indo-European *koryos, from *ker- (“army”).
Cognates
See also Walloon hairyî, Old French hairier, harier; also Saterland Frisian ferheerje, German verheeren (“to harry, devastate”), Swedish härja (“ravage, harry”); also Old English here, West Frisian hear, Dutch heer, German Heer); also Middle Irish cuire (“army”), Lithuanian kãrias (“army; war”), Old Church Slavonic кара (kara, “strife”), Ancient Greek κοίρανος (koíranos, “chief, commander”), Old Persian [script needed] (kāra, “army”)). More at here (“army”).
Synonyms
beset, chevvy, chevy, chivvy, chivy, harass, hassle, molest, plague, provoke, ravage, aerosolize, afflict, aggrieve, annihilate, atomize, atray, badger, bait, bedevil, beleaguer, benothing, bewreck, blot out, blotto, bug, cag, dash, decompose, demolish, desolate, destroy, devastate, diffuse, disintegrate, disperse, dissolve, distress, eliminate, engrieve, eradicate, erase, exterminate, extinguish, extirpate, fuck, give someone grief, grame, harrow, harry, hound, jazz, lay waste, level, liquidate, maraud, nuke, obliterate, persecute, pester, pick at, pull down, pulverize, race, raid, raze, remove, rend, ruin, sack, stamp out, torment, total, trouble, unbreed, unexist, unmake, uproot, vex, waste, wipe off, wipe out, wreck, wring
Scrabble Score: 11
harry: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordharry: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
harry: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary