harried

[ har-eed ]

adjective

1. harassed, agitated, or troubled by or as if by repeated attacks; beleaguered:

   This book is a balm for the harried, doubt-filled soul of a parent.

2. ravaged or devastated, as in war:

   Since leaving France, the Fourth Battalion had depended for its food on what it could glean from a harried countryside.

verb

1. the simple past tense and past participle of harry ( def ).

Other Words From

• un·har·ried adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of harried¹

harry ( def ) + -ed ²( def )

Example Sentences

Her journey from Denver to the South Pacific is occasioned by a package she received in the mail which contained a key, an ornamental knife and a picture of her husband Harry with the coordinates of the island written on the back.

From Washington Post

While several DTC brands have tried out big box stores — such as Harry’s in Target — this year, big-box stores have become a key part of the DTC growth strategy.

From Digiday

Meghan and Harry ink a Spotify deal, Paris’s mayor is happy to pay a gender parity fine, and MacKenzie Scott acknowledges an ugly truth.

From Fortune

Still, founders of startups in other highly consolidated CPG categories may want to take note of Harry’s — and now seemingly Billie’s — fate.

From Digiday

That includes Harry’s, Away, Glossier and Warby Parker to name a few.

From Digiday

A harried-sounding woman answered the phone at a publicly listed number for Warnack on Friday.

From The Daily Beast

He is sighted just off-stage, harried look on his face, occasionally smiling.

From The Daily Beast

He would do a harried married man or an old horse on its last legs or a bop musician named Cool Cees or a whole Italian movie.

From The Daily Beast

It was hard not to love him when even his desperate, harried mother wanted him dead.

From The Daily Beast

The commentator Andrew Sullivan harried McCain about the risks of war, recalling Iraq.

From The Daily Beast

Thence sailing west came he to Borgundarholm (Bornholm) and made thereon a landing and harried all in the isle.

From Project Gutenberg

And when he was come to the realm over which Earl Hakon had rule harried he there, laying bare all the land.

From Project Gutenberg

From the castle he harried the whole neighbourhood, threatened Bath, and sold his prisoners as slaves to Ireland.

From Project Gutenberg

There he plundered widely; and he put in also to Lofufjord with his host, and going up onto the land harried there likewise.

From Project Gutenberg

Next summer called out King Harald an host and fared to Denmark where he harried during the summer.

From Project Gutenberg