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harrow

Verb C2 – Mastery

To cause someone great distress, or, in farming, to break up soil with a heavy piece of equipment.

"The survivors' accounts of the flood harrowed everyone who read them."

More commonly encountered today as the adjective "harrowing" than as a verb on its own.

Synonyms

distress torment

Antonyms