MEANING
To trouble or attack repeatedly, allowing little rest.
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Words that belong together
- harry a retreating force
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The creatures harried the retreating party.
Riders harried the border villages.
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Word forms
- Base
- harry
- Past tense
- harried
- Past participle
- harried
- Present participle
- harrying
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- harry
- Present continuous
- am/is/are harrying
- Present perfect
- have/has harried
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been harrying
- Past
- harried
- Past continuous
- was/were harrying
- Past perfect
- had harried
- Past perfect continuous
- had been harrying
- Future
- will harry
- Future continuous
- will be harrying
- Future perfect
- will have harried
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been harrying
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Usage notes
Primary category: horror. Forms: harry; harries; harried; harried; harrying Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: harries.
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