harrowed

past tense of harrow

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for harrowed
Verb
  • But internally, Artie is struggling, plagued by feelings of isolation and the constant thought that the world has gone mad.
    Clare Fisher, PEOPLE, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Bob McCann, executive director of The K-12 Alliance of Michigan, said the message from the governor and state superintendent telling school officials to spend money on school meals after the budget logjam in Lansing plagued them with months of funding uncertainty was met with frustration.
    Clara Hendrickson, Freep.com, 1 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Subsequent names didn't stick either, despite cases of this unusual form of diabetes continuing to surface, especially in areas afflicted with malnutrition.
    Jonathan Lambert, NPR, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Just look at poverty, violence and health and housing inequities that have long afflicted Fairhill and West Kensington, two adjacent and heavily Puerto Rican neighborhoods in North Philadelphia.
    Héctor M. Varela Rios, The Conversation, 8 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • This Committee was initially created during the McCarthy Era, a dark time when the federal government repressed and persecuted American citizens for their political beliefs.
    Greg Evans, Deadline, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Leatherface attacks, but the real villains turn out to be the townsfolk who persecuted the Sawyers after the original massacre.
    Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 21 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • This is the cost of having been tortured in public.
    Romina Ruiz-Goiriena, USA Today, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Hoping to better understand the demand for smutty scares, Hitchcock and his wife, Alma Reville (Olivia Williams), spend an interminable evening at the theater surrounded by people throwing popcorn and making out while the topless woman onscreen is tortured and killed in a masked man’s dungeon.
    Ben Travers, IndieWire, 4 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • In his country home, he is tormented by the reality that there are too many, and more coming, as two cats are pregnant.
    Rebecca van Laer September 30, Literary Hub, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Friday night was the final time the Giants will have to face Kershaw, a generational pitcher who tormented them for 18 seasons.
    Justice delos Santos, Mercury News, 20 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • And in the center of the city, where the overflowing rivers are predicted to merge, Thomas Orthopedic Hospital could be besieged by more than 10 feet of water on three sides.
    CNN Money, CNN Money, 5 Oct. 2025
  • If your flower beds were besieged with pests or fungal diseases, the fallen leaf litter and stems from those plants should not be left in the garden.
    Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 4 Oct. 2025
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“Harrowed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/harrowed. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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