Harry vs Vex - What's the difference?
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To bother; to trouble.
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To strip; to lay waste.
* Washington Irving
* J. Burroughs
To trouble aggressively, to harass.
* 1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , Acts XII:
To annoy, irritate.
To cause (mental) suffering to; to distress.
(rare) To twist, to weave.
* Dryden
(obsolete) To be irritated; to fret.
To toss back and forth; to agitate; to disquiet.
* Alexander Pope
Harry is a related term of vex.
As a proper noun harry
is , also used as a pet form of henry and harold.As a noun vex is
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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 ----vex
English
Verb
(es)- In that tyme Herode the kynge layed hondes on certayne of the congregacion, to vexe them.
- Billy's professor was vexed by his continued failure to improve his grades.
- some English wool, vexed in a Belgian loom
- (Chapman)
- White curl the waves, and the vexed ocean roars.