Harrow
verb
To break up and smooth out soil or land using a harrow.
John had to harrow the field before planting the seeds.
Often appears as...
- harrow the field
- harrow the garden
noun
A tool or equipment with spikes or disks, used to break up and smooth the soil.
A tractor was pulling a heavy harrow across the field.
Often appears as...
- pull a harrow
- harrow on field
verb
To cause distress or torment to someone.
The horrific incident would harrow her for the rest of her life.
Often appears as...
- harrow someone's soul
- harrow their feelings
Usage tips
Disapproving
verb
To break up and smooth out soil or land using a harrow.
John had to harrow the field before planting the seeds.
Often appears as...
- harrow the field
- harrow the garden
noun
A tool or equipment with spikes or disks, used to break up and smooth the soil.
A tractor was pulling a heavy harrow across the field.
Often appears as...
- pull a harrow
- harrow on field
verb
To cause distress or torment to someone.
The horrific incident would harrow her for the rest of her life.
Often appears as...
- harrow someone's soul
- harrow their feelings
Usage tips
Disapproving
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Pro Tip 1/2Agricultural Context
Understand that 'harrow' as a verb is specific to farming and preparing land for crops.
Every spring, farmers harrow their fields for the upcoming planting season.
Pro Tip 2/2Physical Activity
Using 'harrow' as a verb suggests manual or machine-driven labor involving the soil.
After tilling, we must harrow to create a fine seedbed.
Pro Tip 1/2Agricultural Context
Understand that 'harrow' as a verb is specific to farming and preparing land for crops.
Every spring, farmers harrow their fields for the upcoming planting season.
Pro Tip 2/2Physical Activity
Using 'harrow' as a verb suggests manual or machine-driven labor involving the soil.
After tilling, we must harrow to create a fine seedbed.
Pro Tip 1/2Agricultural Context
Understand that 'harrow' as a verb is specific to farming and preparing land for crops.
Every spring, farmers harrow their fields for the upcoming planting season.
Pro Tip 2/2Physical Activity
Using 'harrow' as a verb suggests manual or machine-driven labor involving the soil.
After tilling, we must harrow to create a fine seedbed.
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this adage that when you're making decisions, especially decisions of importance, it's best to be in charge, it's best to be in control, it's best to be in the driver's seat. And we were certainly in the driver's seat, making all these decisions. And let me tell you -- if some of you have been there, it was a most agonizing and harrowing experience.
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in fishing gears are also a threat to one another in belize so these animals are facing many trips but the main trip currently is the watercraft collision which is something that we can change and we can control so important work a great question has just come in um and you've talked about some of these really kind of harrowing issues
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Why lakes and rivers...
about how we might protect water, protect it in the way that you would protect your grandmother, your mother, your sister, your aunties. That is the type of transformation that we need if we are going to address the many water crises we see in our world today, these harrowing water crises that have streamed across our digital devices
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the last three miles will be a harrowing test of their focus navigating on glaciers is factually very difficult you can't go in a straight line you're constantly jumping crevices and zigzagging back and forth one misplaced eft and you're sliding right down on these crevasses kind of the first deep for rasp we've run into
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Sometimes it's good to...
importance it's best to be in charge it's best to be in control it's best to be in the driver's seat and we were certainly in the driver's seat making all these decisions so let me tell you some of you have been there it's the most agonizing and harrowing experience
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The real story of Rosa...
And he said, "This was proof that even in the most harrowing times of race struggle that two people could come together across racial lines and find human commonality along the lines of love and affection."
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and he's a National Geographic Explorer he's waving there so you can see him tim has built a fairly harrowing life's work for himself he predicts when a tornado will hit he gets himself there before it
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Liz Coleman's call to...
of the nation's material wealth that defied credulity. A harrowing predilection for the uses of force had become commonplace, with an equal distaste for the alternative forms of influence.
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It's OK to feel...
She had to sleep packed in mud in order to protect herself from the cold and the mosquitoes. She was eating moths. I mean, just a harrowing story of survival. I met her recently,
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Rites of Manhood:...
initiates they had one that I had come up so this makes us afraid let's lay making plate for it it is the morning of the ritual inside the spirit house the harrowing
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Baba Shiv: Sometimes...
this adage that when you're making decisions, especially decisions of importance, it's best to be in charge, it's best to be in control, it's best to be in the driver's seat. And we were certainly in the driver's seat, making all these decisions. And let me tell you -- if some of you have been there, it was a most agonizing and harrowing experience.
Video examples
Saving Manatees: What It...
in fishing gears are also a threat to one another in belize so these animals are facing many trips but the main trip currently is the watercraft collision which is something that we can change and we can control so important work a great question has just come in um and you've talked about some of these really kind of harrowing issues
Video examples
Why lakes and rivers...
about how we might protect water, protect it in the way that you would protect your grandmother, your mother, your sister, your aunties. That is the type of transformation that we need if we are going to address the many water crises we see in our world today, these harrowing water crises that have streamed across our digital devices
Video examples
Leap of Faith PIPE National...
the last three miles will be a harrowing test of their focus navigating on glaciers is factually very difficult you can't go in a straight line you're constantly jumping crevices and zigzagging back and forth one misplaced eft and you're sliding right down on these crevasses kind of the first deep for rasp we've run into
Video examples
Sometimes it's good to...
importance it's best to be in charge it's best to be in control it's best to be in the driver's seat and we were certainly in the driver's seat making all these decisions so let me tell you some of you have been there it's the most agonizing and harrowing experience
Video examples
The real story of Rosa...
And he said, "This was proof that even in the most harrowing times of race struggle that two people could come together across racial lines and find human commonality along the lines of love and affection."
Video examples
#OurEarth Innovation in...
and he's a National Geographic Explorer he's waving there so you can see him tim has built a fairly harrowing life's work for himself he predicts when a tornado will hit he gets himself there before it
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Liz Coleman's call to...
of the nation's material wealth that defied credulity. A harrowing predilection for the uses of force had become commonplace, with an equal distaste for the alternative forms of influence.
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It's OK to feel...
She had to sleep packed in mud in order to protect herself from the cold and the mosquitoes. She was eating moths. I mean, just a harrowing story of survival. I met her recently,
Video examples
Rites of Manhood:...
initiates they had one that I had come up so this makes us afraid let's lay making plate for it it is the morning of the ritual inside the spirit house the harrowing
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Lauren Mayberry
Scottish Musician
Crushes start out as that teenage phenomenon, life-affirming and cute, but as you wander into adulthood, they seem to end up more painful, harrowing, and uncertain, especially if you have just come out of the relationship you thought would finally, maybe, maybe be the one that stuck.
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Padgett Powell
American Novelist
Travel writing is harrowing. You are in paradise, more or less, having to prove it is paradise. It is hard to have a good time trying to figure out a way to say you are having a good time, whether you are having it or not, even in paradise.
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Elliot Knight
British Actor
We can all tend to get caught up in the complications of life that we create; we live life for other people. It's a harrowing moment when you're confronted with an end, and you have to make the choice to live your life for you.
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Richard Branson
British Businessman
I love travelling full stop - so while I've had some harrowing instances, I never look at them negatively. Memories are made when you're travelling - not when you're chained to your desk.
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Harlan Coben
American Author
When I was seventeen, I worked as a counsellor at a co-ed sleep-away camp for eight weeks. I loved it but it could be harrowing - it was far too much responsibility for someone my age.
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Sarah Lancashire
British Actress
I don't search it out - I really want to be clear, I don't search out the misery! I'm not sitting at home going, 'I can't wait to do another harrowing piece of work.
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Josh Radnor
American Director
Well, I stopped drinking. That was actually a big deal. I didn't go through any harrowing rock-bottom experience. I just made a decision to stop drinking.
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Rae Carson
American Writer
My most profound growth as a writer came when I joined an online critique group. What a harrowing, terrifying, wonderful experience that was.
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Lane Garrison
American Actor
I have much to say about the pain I've felt and seen inside of prison. It has been an eye-opening and harrowing experience.
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Robert Rinder
English Judge
My genuine passion for dance was born watching Ballet Rambert perform Christopher Bruce's harrowing 'Ghost Dances.
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Lauren Mayberry
Scottish Musician
Crushes start out as that teenage phenomenon, life-affirming and cute, but as you wander into adulthood, they seem to end up more painful, harrowing, and uncertain, especially if you have just come out of the relationship you thought would finally, maybe, maybe be the one that stuck.
Quote examples
Padgett Powell
American Novelist
Travel writing is harrowing. You are in paradise, more or less, having to prove it is paradise. It is hard to have a good time trying to figure out a way to say you are having a good time, whether you are having it or not, even in paradise.
Quote examples
Elliot Knight
British Actor
We can all tend to get caught up in the complications of life that we create; we live life for other people. It's a harrowing moment when you're confronted with an end, and you have to make the choice to live your life for you.
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Richard Branson
British Businessman
I love travelling full stop - so while I've had some harrowing instances, I never look at them negatively. Memories are made when you're travelling - not when you're chained to your desk.
Quote examples
Harlan Coben
American Author
When I was seventeen, I worked as a counsellor at a co-ed sleep-away camp for eight weeks. I loved it but it could be harrowing - it was far too much responsibility for someone my age.
Quote examples
Sarah Lancashire
British Actress
I don't search it out - I really want to be clear, I don't search out the misery! I'm not sitting at home going, 'I can't wait to do another harrowing piece of work.
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Josh Radnor
American Director
Well, I stopped drinking. That was actually a big deal. I didn't go through any harrowing rock-bottom experience. I just made a decision to stop drinking.
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Rae Carson
American Writer
My most profound growth as a writer came when I joined an online critique group. What a harrowing, terrifying, wonderful experience that was.
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Lane Garrison
American Actor
I have much to say about the pain I've felt and seen inside of prison. It has been an eye-opening and harrowing experience.
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Robert Rinder
English Judge
My genuine passion for dance was born watching Ballet Rambert perform Christopher Bruce's harrowing 'Ghost Dances.
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