harrowed

Meaning

of Harrow

Examples

When shall we see poets born? After a time of disasters and great misfortunes, when harrowed nations begin to breathe again. And then, shaken by the terror of such spectacles, imaginations will paint things entirely strange to those who have not witnessed them. Denis Diderot

Baltic Old Prussian probably ceased to be spoken around the beginning of the 18th century due to many of its remaining speakers dying in the famines and bubonic plague epidemics which harrowed the East Prussian countryside and towns from 1709 until 1711. Source: Internet

In modern use, a ploughed field is typically left to dry out, and is then harrowed before planting. Source: Internet

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