Word Meanings - HARRY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

ravage, plunder, fr. here army; akin to G. here army; akin to G. heer, Icel. herr, Goth. harjis, and Lith. karas war. Gf. Harbor, 1. To strip; to lay waste; as, the Northmen came several times and harried the land. To harry this beautiful region.

Additional info about word: HARRY

ravage, plunder, fr. here army; akin to G. here army; akin to G. heer, Icel. herr, Goth. harjis, and Lith. karas war. Gf. Harbor, 1. To strip; to lay waste; as, the Northmen came several times and harried the land. To harry this beautiful region. W. Irving. A red squirrel had harried the nest of a wood thrush. J. Burroughs. 2. To agitate; to worry; to harrow; to harass. Shak. Syn. -- To ravage; plunder; pillage; lay waste; vex; tease; worry; annoy; harass.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of HARRY)

• Pester
• Plague
• worry
• vex
• harass
• disquiet
• annoy
• tease
• torment
• chafe
• harry
• badger
• incommode
• gall

Related words: (words related to HARRY)

• TEASER
  A jager gull. (more info) 1. One who teases or vexes.
• DISQUIETTUDE
  Want of peace or tranquility; uneasiness; disturbance; agitation; anxiety. Fears and disquietude, and unavoidable anxieties of mind. Abp. Sharp.
• TORMENTFUL
  Full of torment; causing, or accompainied by, torment; excruciating. Tillotson.
• DISQUIETLY
  In a disquiet manner; uneasily; as, he rested disquietly that night. Wiseman.
• TORMENTOR
  An implement for reducing a stiff soil, resembling a harrow, but running upon wheels. Hebert. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, torments; one who inflicts penal anguish or tortures. Jer. Taylor. Thoughts, my tormentors, armed with
• BADGERING
  1. The act of one who badgers. 2. The practice of buying wheat and other kinds of food in one place and selling them in another for a profit.
• INCOMMODE
  To give inconvenience or trouble to; to disturb or molest; to discommode; to worry; to put out; as, we are incommoded by want of room. Syn. -- To annoy; disturb; trouble; molest; disaccomodate; inconvenience; disquiet; vex; plague.
• DISQUIETMENT
  State of being disquieted; uneasiness; harassment. Hopkins.
• CHAFER
  1. One who chafes. 2. A vessel for heating water; -- hence, a dish or pan. A chafer of water to cool the ends of the irons. Baker.
• TORMENTIL
  A rosaceous herb , the root of which is used as a powerful astringent, and for alleviating gripes, or tormina, in diarrhea. (more info) tormentilla, Sp. tormentila; all fr. L. tormentum pain. So called
• BADGER STATE
  Wisconsin; -- a nickname.
• TORMENT
  1. To put to extreme pain or anguish; to inflict excruciating misery upon, either of body or mind; to torture. " Art thou come hither to torment us before our time " Matt. viii. 29. 2. To pain; to distress; to afflict. Lord, my servant lieth at
• CHAFERY
  An open furnace or forge, in which blooms are heated before being wrought into bars.
• ANNOYANCE
  1. The act of annoying, or the state of being annoyed; molestation; vexation; annoy. A deep clay, giving much annoyance to passengers. Fuller. For the further annoyance and terror of any besieged place, they would throw into it dead bodies.
• CHAFEWAX; CHAFFWAX
  Formerly a chancery officer who fitted wax for sealing writs and other documents.
• ANNOYOUS
  Troublesome; annoying. Chaucer.
• DISQUIETOUS
  Causing uneasiness. So distasteful and disquietous to a number of men. Milton.
• ANNOYING
  That annoys; molesting; vexatious. -- An*noy"ing*ly, adv.
• PESTEROUS
  Inclined to pester. Also, vexatious; encumbering; burdensome. Bacon.
• HARASS
  To fatigue; to tire with repeated and exhausting efforts; esp., to weary by importunity, teasing, or fretting; to cause to endure excessive burdens or anxieties; -- sometimes followed by out. harassed with a long and wearisome march. Bacon. Nature
• COCKCHAFER
  A beetle of the genus Melolontha and allied genera; -- called also May bug, chafer, or dorbeetle.
• OVERPESTER
  To pester exceedingly or excessively. Sir W. Raleigh.
• BADGER
  An itinerant licensed dealer in commodities used for food; a hawker; a huckster; -- formerly applied especially to one who bought grain in one place and sold it in another.
• TAPPESTER
  A female tapster. Chaucer.
• TEASE
  To tear or separate into minute shreds, as with needles or similar instruments. 4. To vex with importunity or impertinence; to harass, annoy, disturb, or irritate by petty requests, or by jests and raillery; to plague. Cowper. He . . . suffered
• ANNOY
  disturb or irritate, especially by continued or repeated acts; to tease; to ruffle in mind; to vex; as, I was annoyed by his remarks. Say, what can more our tortured souls annoy Than to behold, admire, and lose our joy Prior. 2. To molest,
• ENCHAFE
  To chafe; to enrage; to heat. Shak.