harry

harry is a 5-letter English word with 5 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To strip; to lay waste; as, the Northmen came several times and harried the land. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 9 · 5 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To strip; to lay waste; as, the Northmen came several times and harried the land.
2. transitive verb. To agitate; to worry; to harrow; to harass.
3. intransitive verb. To make a predatory incursion; to plunder or lay waste.
4. verb. make a pillaging or destructive raid on (a place), as in wartimes

   Synonyms: ravage

5. verb. annoy continually or chronically

   "He is known to harry his staff when he is overworked"

   "This man harasses his female co-workers"

   Synonyms: beset, chevvy, chevy, chivvy, chivy, harass, hassle, molest, plague, provoke

Synonyms

ravage, beset, chevvy, chevy, chivvy, chivy, harass, hassle, molest, plague, provoke

Common word forms

harried, harrier, harries, harrying

Words from these letters

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