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Harried vs Parried - What's the difference?

harried | parried |

As verbs the difference between harried and parried

is that harried is past tense of harry while parried is past tense of parry.

As an adjective harried

is rushed; panicked; overly busy or preoccupied.

harried

English

Adjective

(head)
  • Rushed; panicked; overly busy or preoccupied.
    • The entire place teemed with harried executives who had no time to talk to one another.

    Verb

    (head)
  • (harry)

    • References

    * If they are harried too much, private schools may just dump their charitable status, which confers tax breaks, on average, only £250 per child per year. — Best articles: Britain: Don't put the squeeze on private schools, The Week , Issue 605, page 14.

    Anagrams

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    parried

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (parry)

    • Anagrams

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    parry

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l) (obsolete)

    Noun

    (parries)
  • A defensive or deflective action; an act of parrying.
  • (fencing) A simple defensive action designed to deflect an attack, performed with the forte of the blade.

    • Derived terms

    * beat parry * opposition parry * yielding parry

    Verb

  • To avoid, deflect, or ward off (an attack, a blow, an argument, etc.).
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=September 28 , author=Tom Rostance , title=Arsenal 2 - 1 Olympiakos , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Wojciech Szczesny was then called into action twice in a minute to parry fierce drives from Djebbour and Torossidis as Arsenal's back four looked all at sea.}}