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harrow
1[ har-oh ]
noun
- an agricultural implement with spikelike teeth or upright disks, drawn chiefly over plowed land to level it, break up clods, root up weeds, etc.
verb (used with object)
- to draw a harrow over (land).
- to disturb keenly or painfully; distress the mind, feelings, etc., of.
verb (used without object)
- to become broken up by harrowing, as soil.
harrow
2[ har-oh ]
verb (used with object)
- to ravish; violate; despoil.
- (of Christ) to descend into (hell) to free the righteous held captive.
Harrow
3[ har-oh ]
noun
- a borough of Greater London, in SE England.
- a boarding school for boys, founded in 1571 at Harrow-on-the-Hill, an urban district near London, England.
Harrow
1/ ˈæəʊ /
noun
- a borough of NW Greater London; site of an English boys' public school founded in 1571 at Harrow-on-the-Hill, a part of this borough. Pop: 210 700 (2003 est). Area: 51 sq km (20 sq miles)
harrow
2/ ˈæəʊ /
noun
- any of various implements used to level the ground, stir the soil, break up clods, destroy weeds, etc, in soil
verb
- tr to draw a harrow over (land)
- intr (of soil) to become broken up through harrowing
- tr to distress; vex
harrow
3/ ˈæəʊ /
verb
- to plunder or ravish
- (of Christ) to descend into (hell) to rescue righteous souls
Derived Forms
- ˈǷɱ, noun
- ˈǷɾԲ, adjectivenoun
- ˈǷɳԳ, noun
Other Word Forms
- ۴Ƿ· noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of harrow1
Word History and Origins
Origin of harrow1
Origin of harrow2
Example Sentences
Judge Martin Picton thanked the jury for their work on an "utterly harrowing" case.
The artist and his partner were sitting in the dark, on their phones, glued to the news as harrowing details came out of the Palisades.
It is so expertly crafted, so harrowing, it reads as though it is fiction because something this tragic and awful couldn’t possibly be real.
follows is a surreal adventure complete with harrowing eugenics experiments and lynchings, hair’s-breadth escapes and unlikely alliances.
The film has been called "the most harrowing – and honest – depiction of modern combat ever made" by the Telegraph, while the New Yorker said it offers a "hyperrealist rebuke of the American war movie".
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