HARRIED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does harried mean? 

• HARRIED (adjective)
  The adjective HARRIED has 1 sense:

1. troubled persistently especially with petty annoyances

  Familiarity information: HARRIED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HARRIED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Troubled persistently especially with petty annoyances

Synonyms:

annoyed; harassed; harried; pestered; vexed

Context example:

the vexed parents of an unruly teenager

Similar:

troubled (characterized by or indicative of distress or affliction or danger or need)

 Context examples 

I remember it, said Sir Nigel, laughing, and how you harried the cook down the street, and spoke of setting fire to the inn.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We encountered it well up to the forty-fourth parallel, in a raw and stormy sea across which the wind harried the fog-banks in eternal flight.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

It was filled with tropical fruits, wild chickens, and wild pigs, with an occasional herd of wild cattle, while high up among the peaks were herds of wild goats harried by packs of wild dogs.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

She whom I had known as the play actress of Anstey Cross became the dowager Lady Avon; whilst Boy Jim, as dear to me now as when we harried birds’ nests and tickled trout together, is now Lord Avon, beloved by his tenantry, the finest sportsman and the most popular man from the north of the Weald to the Channel.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I have seen it before, when he harried us at Winchelsea.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

If it were grim and desolate upon the English border, however, what can describe the hideous barrenness of this ten times harried tract of France?

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

After them came twenty-seven sumpter horses carrying tent-poles, cloth, spare arms, spurs, wedges, cooking kettles, horse-shoes, bags of nails and the hundred other things which experience had shown to be needful in a harried and hostile country.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I fear that you are yet a 'prentice to that trade, quoth the soldier; for there is no child over the water but could answer what you ask. Know then that though there may be peace between our own provinces and the French, yet within the marches of France there is always war, for the country is much divided against itself, and is furthermore harried by bands of flayers, skinners, Brabacons, tardvenus, and the rest of them. When every man's grip is on his neighbor's throat, and every five-sous-piece of a baron is marching with tuck of drum to fight whom he will, it would be a strange thing if five hundred brave English boys could not pick up a living.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)