Harry vs Lay_waste - What's the difference?
harry | lay_waste | Synonyms |
To bother; to trouble.
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To strip; to lay waste.
* Washington Irving
* J. Burroughs
To completely destroy, especially of a geographical area or region.
* 1990 , (Peter Hopkirk), The Great Game , Folio Society 2010, p. 16:
Harry is a synonym of lay_waste.
As a proper noun harry
is , also used as a pet form of henry and harold.As a verb lay_waste is
to completely destroy, especially of a geographical area or region.harry
English
Verb
(en-verb)- We shall harry the enemy at every turn until his morale breaks and he is at our mercy.
- (Shakespeare)
- The Northmen came several times and harried the land.
- to harry this beautiful region
- A red squirrel had harried the nest of a wood thrush.
Synonyms
* bother, disturb, harass, trouble, worryDerived terms
* harrier ----lay_waste
English
Verb
- Thirsting for revenge, his troops stormed the fortress of Kazan on the upper Volga in 1553, slaughtering the defenders just as the Mongols had done when they laid waste Russia's great cities.