Harry vs. Pester — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Harry and Pester
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Definitions
Harry
To disturb, distress, or exhaust by repeated demands or criticism; harass.
Pester
To annoy persistently, as with repeated demands or questions.
Harry
To attack or raid, as in war
Vikings harrying the coast.
Pester
(transitive) To bother, harass, or annoy persistently.
Harry
To force along, as by attacks or blows
"Blue jays were chasing a squirrel, harrying the creature from tree to tree" (Paul Theroux).
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Pester
To crowd together thickly.
Harry
To batter or buffet. Used of the wind or storms
The wind harried the trees.
Pester
A bother or nuisance.
Harry
To plunder, pillage, assault.
Pester
To trouble; to disturb; to annoy; to harass with petty vexations.
We are pestered with mice and rats.
A multitude of scribblers daily pester the world.
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Harry
To make repeated attacks on an enemy.
Pester
To crowd together in an annoying way; to overcrowd; to infest.
All rivers and pools . . . pestered full with fishes.
Harry
To strip, lay waste, ravage.
Pester
Annoy persistently;
The children teased the boy because of his stammer
Harry
To harass, bother or distress with demands, threats, or criticism.
Harry
To strip; to pillage; to lay waste; as, 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.
Harry
To agitate; to worry; to harrow; to harass.
Harry
To make a predatory incursion; to plunder or lay waste.
Harry
Annoy continually or chronically;
He is known to harry his staff when he is overworked
This man harasses his female co-workers
Harry
Make a pillaging or destructive raid on (a place), as in wartimes
