Causing pain or distress.

The process of breaking up earth with a harrow. / Suffering, torment. / Ravaging; hostile incursion; spoliation; intentional widespread destruction.

present participle of harrow

plural of harrowing

(obsolete) A call for help, or of distress, alarm etc.

(transitive) To drag a harrow over; to break up with a harrow. / (transitive) To traumatize or disturb; to frighten or torment.

A device consisting of a heavy framework having several disks or teeth in a row, which is dragged across ploughed land to smooth or break up the soil, to remove weeds or cover seeds; a harrow plow.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of harrow

plural of harrow

simple past tense and past participle of harrow