harry

/'hæri/

Thân thiện

A manager might harry his team with constant emails.

Definition

1. Verb:
   • To persistently harass, pester, or annoy: To bother someone repeatedly and unpleasantly.
   • To raid, plunder, or devastate: To make aggressive, destructive attacks on a place, especially in a military context.

Examples of Usage

• Verb (to harass/annoy):
  • The manager tends to harry his employees with constant emails.
  • Don't harry the dog while it's eating.
• Verb (to raid/attack):
  • Invading armies would harry the coastal villages.
  • The wolves harried the herd of deer.

Advanced Usage

• "to harry someone into doing something": to pressure or nag someone persistently until they do something.
  • The sales team was harried into meeting the impossible quota.
• "to be harried": to feel stressed, rushed, or harassed.
  • She looked harried after a long day of meetings and deadlines.

Variants and Related Words

• Harrier (n): 1. A person who harries. 2. A type of hawk or a breed of dog used for hunting hares. 3. A cross-country runner.
• Harried (adj): Feeling strained as a result of having demands persistently made on one; harassed.
  • The harried mother tried to calm her crying children.

Synonyms

• Verb (to harass): Badger, pester, plague, hound, torment.
• Verb (to attack): Raid, ravage, pillage, maraud.

Related Phrasal Verbs

(This word is not commonly used in phrasal verb constructions. Its meaning is typically conveyed as a standalone verb.)

Related Idioms

• "To harry someone out of something": To force someone to give up or leave a place through persistent pressure or attack.
  • The protesters were eventually harried out of the square by the police.

Học thuật

Verb

1. make a pillaging or destructive raid on (a place), as in wartimes
2. annoy continually or chronically
   • He is known to harry his staff when he is overworked
   • This man harasses his female co-workers

Từ đồng nghĩa

• ravage