Englishharry
verb
1 after the battle, they harried the retreating enemy:
attack, assail, assault, maraud, ravage, devastate, wreak havoc on;
plunder, rob, sack, ransack, raid, pillage, lay waste to;
literary despoil;
rare depredate, reave, spoliate.
2 the government is being mercilessly harried by a new lobby:
harass, hound, pressurize, bring pressure to bear on, put pressure on, lean on, keep on at, go on at, chivvy, bedevil, torment, pester, bother, disturb, worry, annoy, badger, nag, plague, persecute, molest;
informal hassle, bug, give someone a hard time, drive someone around the bend, drive someone up the wall, be in someone's hair, get on someone's back, breathe down someone's neck;
British, informal drive someone round the twist.
▷antonyms leave in peace.