overharryv.
/ˌəʊvəˈhari/, U.S. /ˌoʊvərˈhɛri/ Now archaic and rare. † 2. intransitive. To cause devastation through war; to ravage. Obsolete. rare.
1. transitive. To overrun, ravage; to harry or worry excessively; to harass.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > adversity > suffer (adversity or affliction) [verb (transitive)] > afflict
overharryeOE
aileOE
swencheOE
besetOE
traya1000
teenOE
to work (also do) (a person) woeOE
derve?c1225
grieve1297
harrya1300
noyc1300
travailc1300
to work (also do) annoyc1300
wrath14..
aggrievea1325
annoya1325
tribula1325
to hold wakenc1330
anguish1340
distrainc1374
wrap1380
strain1382
ermec1386
afflicta1393
cumbera1400
assayc1400
distressc1400
temptc1400
encumber1413
labour1437
infortune?a1439
stressa1450
trouble1489
arraya1500
constraina1500
attempt1525
misease1530
exercise1531
to hold or keep waking1533
try1539
to wring to the worse1542
pinch1548
affligec1550
trounce1551
oppress1555
inflict1566
overharl1570
strait1579
to make a martyr of1599
straiten1611
tribulatea1637
to put through the hoop(s)1919
snooter1923
the mind > emotion > suffering > state of being upset or perturbed > worry > worry about [verb (transitive)] > cause worry to > excessively
overharryeOE
the mind > emotion > suffering > state of being harassed > harass [verb (transitive)]
tawc893
ermec897
swencheOE
besetOE
bestandc1000
teenOE
baitc1175
grieve?c1225
war?c1225
noyc1300
pursuec1300
travailc1300
to work (also do) annoyc1300
tribula1325
worka1325
to hold wakenc1330
chase1340
twistc1374
wrap1380
cumbera1400
harrya1400
vexc1410
encumber1413
inquiet1413
molest?a1425
course1466
persecutec1475
trouble1489
sturt1513
hare1523
hag1525
hale1530
exercise1531
to grate on or upon1532
to hold or keep waking1533
infest1533
scourge1540
molestate1543
pinch1548
trounce1551
to shake upa1556
tire1558
moila1560
pester1566
importune1578
hunt1583
moider1587
bebait1589
commacerate1596
bepester1600
ferret1600
harsell1603
hurry1611
gall1614
betoil1622
weary1633
tribulatea1637
harass1656
dun1659
overharry1665
worry1671
haul1678
to plague the life out of1746
badger1782
hatchel1800
worry1811
bedevil1823
devil1823
victimize1830
frab1848
mither1848
to pester the life out of1848
haik1855
beplague1870
chevy1872
obsede1876
to get on ——1880
to load up with1880
tail-twist1898
hassle1901
heckle1920
snooter1923
hassle1945
to breathe down (the back of) (someone's) neck1946
to bust (a person's) chops1953
noodge1960
monster1967
eOE tr. Orosius Hist. (BL Add.) iii. ix. 69 He ðeah naþelæs heora land oferhergeade.
OE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Tiber. B.iv) anno 969 Her on þissum geare Eadgar cyning het oferhergian eall Tenetland.
lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) anno 1091 Ferde se cyng Melcolm of Scotlande hider in to Englum, & his mycelne dæl oferhergode.
1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 203 His army was continually turmoyled and overharried.
c1625 J. Smith Hist. Bermudaes (1882) 260 Upon certaine assurance of the miscarriage of the cowes, by being ouer-harried with ouer-many bulls, I killed two very old ones.
1665 J. Webb Vindic. Stone-Heng (1725) 167 The English over-harried with the former long Troubles..submitted willingly to his Power.
1885 tr. Anglo-Saxon Chron. anno 933 in Dict. National Biogr. I. 688/2 Æthelstan then invaded Scotland ‘with land host and ship host, and overharried much of it’.
1907 E. Dale National Life & Char. in Mirror of Early Eng. Lit. i. 21 In 796 Ceolwulf, king of the Mercians, overharried Kent.
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > attack > invasion > invade [verb (transitive)] > overrun or harry
begoa855
harryc893
war1297
overridea1375
yerna1400
overrun?a1425
overharry1600
harrow1606
harassa1618
sweep1788
jay-hawk1866
1600 R. Churche tr. M. Fumée Hist. Hungary 22 Though the enemies should ouerharrie from Mohacz vnto Poson.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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