Synonyms of harrow

harrow

verb

as in to plague

to cause persistent suffering to

the villagers were gaunt and sickly, harrowed by years of disease and starvation

Synonyms & Similar Words

• plague
• afflict
• persecute
• torture
• torment
• curse
• anguish
• besiege
• bother
• beset
• attack
• excruciate
• rack
• sting
• trouble
• bedevil
• agonize
• badger
• strike
• hound
• disturb
• vex
• harry
• annoy
• dog
• grate
• aggravate
• distress
• assail
• ride
• agitate
• disquiet
• oppress
• irritate
• hurt
• smite
• overwhelm
• irk
• harass
• pursue
• stab
• exasperate
• pain
• prick
• discomfort
• chafe
• worry
• molest
• nettle
• upset
• discompose
• rile
• bug
• stress
• try
• rasp
• put out
• crush
• grieve
• perturb
• tyrannize
• strain
• gall
• pester
• gripe
• victimize
• pique
• fluster
• wring
• peeve
• smart
• overpower
• hagride
• get
• pang
• martyr

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• help
• aid
• assist
• relieve
• abet
• deliver
• release
• soothe
• comfort
• quiet
• content
• console
• succor
• reprieve
• solace

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of harrow

Before the big race, the track was harrowed, bringing it to a better and drier racing surface. — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2025

The research fellow who met me, Birte, was in her forties, and appeared as if she had been harrowed by her work. — John Ganz, Harper's Magazine, 22 May 2024

Plus, Shin Ha-young is given little to do in the second half of the series despite her effortless shift from warm third wheel to harrowed and weary abuse victim. — Geoffrey Bunting, Rolling Stone, 26 Oct. 2023

That same humble deity, in the course of putting on humanity, had obtained a glimpse of the conditions on earth—poverty, needless estrangement, a stubborn pattern of rich ruling over poor—and decided to incite a revolution that would harrow Hell. — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 28 Dec. 2020