Harried

Definition: Harried

Harried

Adjective

1. 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".

Date "harried" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Synonyms: Harried

Synonyms: annoyed (adj), harassed (adj), pestered (adj), vexed (adj). (additional references)

Crosswords: Harried

English words defined with "harried": annoyed ♦ harassed ♦ pestered ♦ vexed. (references)

Specialty definitions using "harried": Wrath. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Folk Dance: Harried Harry (reference) Help for the Harried Homeschooler: A Practical Guide to Balancing Your Child's Education With the Rest of Your Life (reference) The Harried Housewife's Universe (reference) The Harried Leisure Class (reference) The harried staffer's guide to current welfare reform proposals (reference) (more book examples)
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	WRATH, n. Anger of a superior quality and degree, appropriate to exalted characters and momentous occasions; as, "the wrath of God," "the day of wrath," etc. Amongst the ancients the wrath of kings was deemed sacred, for it could usually command the agency of some god for its fit manifestation, as could also that of a priest. The Greeks before Troy were so harried by Apollo that they jumped out of the frying-pan of the wrath of Cryses into the fire of the wrath of Achilles, though Agamemnon, the sole offender, was neither fried nor roasted. A similar noted immunity was that of David when he incurred the wrath of Yahveh by numbering his people, seventy thousand of whom paid the penalty with their lives. God is now Love, and a director of the census performs his work without apprehension of disaster. X X in our alphabet being a needless letter has an added invincibility to the attacks of the spelling reformers, and like them, will doubtless last as long as the language. X is the sacred symbol of ten dollars, and in such words as Xmas, Xn, etc., stands for Christ, not, as is popular supposed, because it represents a cross, but because the corresponding letter in the Greek alphabet is the initial of his name -- Xristos. If it represented a cross it would stand for St. Andrew, who "testified" upon one of that shape. In the algebra of psychology x stands for Woman's mind. Words beginning with X are Grecian and will not be defined in this standard English dictionary. Y
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"Harried" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 41.27% of the time. "Harried" is used about 63 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (past participle)	41.27%	26	68,323
Lexical Verb (past tense)	34.92%	22	74,468
Adjective (general or positive)	20.63%	13	97,576
Noun (proper)	3.17%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	63	N/A

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "harried"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
German		plünderte (despoiled, forayed, looted, marauded, pillaged, plundered), geplündert (looted, marauded, plundered, sacked). (various references)

Pig Latin		arriedhay

Russian		измученный (all in, chivied, exhausted, forworn, racked with, strung, used up, whacked). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"Harried" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: hagride, haredi, hareide, harid, Harjinda, Harpreet, harrid, harrie, Harrild, harriod, Harroid, Hartie, Haryadi, herried, tharrid. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "harried" (pronounced he"rēd)
4	-e" r ē d	buried, ferried, married, parried, remarried, unmarried, varied.
3	-r ē d	carried, intermarried, inventoried, liveried, queried, storied, wearied.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: hardier.
	Words within the letters "a-d-e-h-i-r-r"
	-1 letter: arider, haired, harder, raider.
	-2 letters: aider, aired, airer, darer, deair, direr, drear, drier, hared, heard, hider, hired, hirer, irade, rared, redia, rider.
	-3 letters: aide, arid, dare, dear, dire, hade, haed, hair, hard, hare, head, hear, heir, herd, hide, hied, hire, idea, ired, raid, rare, read, rear, rhea, ride.
	-4 letters: aid, air, are, dah, die, ear, edh, era, err, had, hae, her, hid, hie, ire, rad, rah, red, rei, ria, rid.
	-5 letters: ad, ae, ah, ai, ar, de, ed, eh, er, ha, he, hi, id, re.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-e-h-i-r-r"
	+1 letter: diarrhea, hardwire, trihedra.
	+2 letters: diarrheal, diarrheas, diarrheic, diarrhoea, hardwired, hardwires, hyperarid, shikarred, threadier, trihedral.
	+3 letters: airbrushed, diarrhetic, diarrhoeas, discharger, draughtier, harborside, heraldries, hereditary, hitherward, readership, trihedrals, wirehaired.
	+4 letters: arthritides, arthrodesis, birdwatcher, charbroiled, diarthroses, dischargers, foolhardier, hairbreadth, hairdresser, handwringer, harbingered, harebrained, hindquarter, horseradish, ironhearted, philanderer, readerships, rehardening, rehydrating, rehydration, rethreading, shadberries, shorthaired, thitherward, whitherward.
	+5 letters: airfreighted, birdwatchers, discographer, hairbreadths, hairdressers, hairdressing, hairsbreadth, handicrafter, handwringers, headshrinker, heartrending, hemorrhoidal, hereditarian, hereditarily, hierarchized, hindquarters, merchandiser, micrographed, perichondral, perichondria, philanderers, predischarge, radiographed, radiotherapy, reauthorized, rehydrations, scrimshander, straightbred, tetrahedrite, thitherwards, videographer.
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