Verb:

थका देना, वीरान करना, नाश करना, बरबाद करना, तबाह करना, उजाड़ना, सताना,

harrying's Usage Examples:

The deliberate harrying of the Midlands by Margarets northern levies was a new departure, and one bitterly resented.

He wasted his considerable military talents in a series of skirmishes and sieges which had no great results, and after spending countless treasures and harrying many regions, perished obscurely by a wound from a cross-bow-bolt, received while beleaguering Chlus, a castle of a rebellious lord of Aquitaine, the viscount of Limoges (April 6, 1199).

The king replied by harrying him on charges of having failed in his feudal obligation to provide well-equipped knights for a Welsh expedition, and imposed ruinous fines on him.

We know that at the same time that some Scandinavian folk were harrying all the western lands, others were founding Garbariki (Russia) in the east; others were pressing still farther south till they came in contact with the eastern empire in Constantinople, which the northern folk knew as MikillgarOr (Mikklegard); so that when Hasting and Bjorn had sailed to Luna in the gulf of Genoa the northern folk had almost put a girdle round the Christian world.

Another instance of such more generic use occurs in the following typical passage from the Landnamabok (Sturlabok), where it is recorded how Harald Fairhair harried the vikings of the Scottish isles - that famous harrying which led to most of the settlement of Iceland and the birth of Icelandic literature: " Haraldr en harfari herjaoi vestr am haf ...

Moab thus retained its independence, even harrying Israel with marauding bands (2 Kings xiii.

The harrying was halted in 1795; and soon after the directory had been succeeded by the consulate, the Catholic religion was re-established by the concordat of 1801.

In the meantime, while these posts were under construction, the harrying of the commandos by mobile columns was continued.

For the same reason the British and Dutch fleets which sailed with the object of harrying the Spaniards, under Sir Francis Drake (1577-1580), Thomas Cavendish (1586-1593)593) and Oliver van Noort (1598-1601), were not, as regards the Pacific, of prime geographical importance.

Having married as his second wife, (St) Margaret, a sister of Edgar lEtheling, who was a fugitive at his court, he invaded England in 1070 to support the claim of Edgar to the English throne, returning to Scotland with many captives after harrying Northumbria.

Synonyms:

frustrate, plague, get at, dun, nettle, irritate, chafe, gravel, chivvy, provoke, nark, crucify, get to, vex, goad, rile, chevvy, bother, rag, torment, chivy, beset, haze, bedevil, molest, chevy, annoy, harass, hassle, devil, needle,

Antonyms:

end, reassure, discourage, discouragement, calm,