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Another word for harry

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Verb

  1. To make a surprise attack on

    See also:

    attack

  2. To disturb by repeated attacks

    See also:

    pain

    feelings

  3. To trouble persistently from or as if from all sides

    See also:

    attack

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Another word for harry

Verb

  1. To raid

    See also:

    steal

    ravage

    raid

    attack

  2. To harass

    See also:

    disturb

    bother

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Sentence Examples

  • A change, however, came about towards the end of the century, when the Scandinavian freebooters known as Danes began to harry the coasts.

  • When the Israelites were journeying from Egypt to the land of Canaan, the Amalekites are said to have taken advantage of their weak condition to harry the stragglers in the rear, and as a judgment for their hostility it was ordained that their memory should be blotted out from under heaven (Deut.

  • Will you please tell Harry to write me a very long letter soon?

  • Pericles led a large squadron to harry the coasts of the Peloponnese, but met with little success.

  • Men so moved so to act could hardly be commonplace; and so among them we find characters strong and marked, with equal ability to rule and to obey, as William Bradford (1590-1657) and Brewster, Edward Winslow (1595-1655) and Miles Standish (1584-1656), John Winthrop (1588-1649) and Dr Samuel Fuller, and men so inflexible in their love of liberty and faith in man as Roger Williams and young Harry Vane.

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