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The Collaborative International Dictionary
harried

harried \harried\ adj. same as harassed.

Syn: annoyed, harassed, pestered.

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harried

  1. rushed; panicked; overly busy or preoccupied. v

  2. (en-past of: harry)

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harried

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harried

adj. troubled persistently especially with petty annoyances; "harassed working mothers"; "a harried expression"; "her poor pestered father had to endure her constant interruptions"; "the vexed parents of an unruly teenager" [syn: annoyed, harassed, pestered, vexed]

harry

  1. v. annoy continually or chronically; "He is known to harry his staff when he is overworked"; "This man harasses his female co-workers" [syn: harass, hassle, chivy, chivvy, chevy, chevvy, beset, plague, molest, provoke]

  2. make a pillaging or destructive raid on (a place), as in wartimes [syn: ravage]

  3. [also: harried]

Usage examples of "harried".

Harry noticed that many of the people who passed them had the same harried, anxious look as Mrs.

A lethal dose of medication administered to a child because a harried physician omitted a decimal point.

James I Hawley, a polite, if harried, hydrobiological engineer from Walnut Creek, California, might, if he existed.