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harrowed

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Har·row  (hr)
A borough of Greater London in southeast England. It is the site of the public school Harrow, founded in 1571. Population: 214,000.

har·row 1  (hr)
n.
A farm implement consisting of a heavy frame with sharp teeth or upright disks, used to break up and even off plowed ground.
tr.v. har·rowed, har·row·ing, har·rows
1. To break up and level (soil or land) with a harrow.
2. To inflict great distress or torment on.

[Middle English harwe.]

harrow·er n.

har·row 2  (hr)
tr.v. har·rowed, har·row·ing, har·rows Archaic
To plunder; sack.

[Middle English herwen, variant of harien; see harry.]
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"I was so harrowed up in my mind last night that I didn't think about my clothes at all," said Anne.
Do you suppose my feelings are a trumpery set of social observances, to be harrowed to order and exhibited at funerals?
Meanwhile such of the wounded as could move came clambering out of the fore-scuttle and began to help; while the rest that lay helpless in their bunks harrowed me with screaming and begging to be saved.
 
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