What is the meaning of harried?

verb

• Annoy continually or chronically.
  • usage: "He is known to harry his staff when he is overworked"; "This man harasses his female co-workers"
  • synonyms: harass, hassle, harry, chivy, chivvy, chevy, chevvy, beset, plague, molest, provoke
• Make a pillaging or destructive raid on (a place), as in wartimes.
  • synonyms: harry, ravage

adjective

• Troubled persistently especially with petty annoyances.
  • usage: "harassed working mothers"; "a harried expression"; "her poor pestered father had to endure her constant interruptions"; "the vexed parents of an unruly teenager"
  • synonyms: annoyed, harassed, pestered, vexed