Meaning & use
harrow
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A farming tool with sharp teeth or discs, dragged over plowed soil to break it up and level it.
See it in a sentence
The farmer pulled the harrow across the field to prepare it for planting.
A rusty old harrow sat abandoned at the edge of the barn.
A note on using this word
As a verb, 'to harrow' means to cause great distress, as in 'a harrowing experience' — this figurative sense is now far more common than the farming tool itself.
Another way to use it
2. verb
To cause someone great distress or anguish.
The survivors' accounts of the disaster harrowed everyone who heard them.
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