harrowed

verb

past tense of harrow
as in plagued
to cause persistent suffering to the villagers were gaunt and sickly, harrowed by years of disease and starvation

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  1. plagued
  2. afflicted
  3. persecuted
  4. tortured
  5. tormented
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  • Liam Gallagher continued his longtime legacy of talking crap about other artists with his recap of this year’s World Cup halftime show, tweeting out various annoyances that plagued him.
    — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 20 July 2026
  • Both Boeing and Airbus have been plagued by supply crunches following the Covid-19 pandemic, and have struggled to meet demand for new aircraft from customers.
    — Elsa Ohlen, CNBC, 20 July 2026
Definition of plagued
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  • Forty-nine of the afflicted have been hospitalized; of those, thirty-four have gone home.
    — News Desk, Artforum, 15 July 2026
  • Jonestown afflicted Naipaul’s vision, his way of deciphering not just political manias but the dreariness of urban life, the perpetual doom of the nuclear-arms race.
    — Hua Hsu, New Yorker, 14 July 2026
Definition of afflicted
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  • Also on Wednesday, Blume returned a Pablo Picasso bust, Fernande/Beatrice (1905), to the descendants of German-Jewish dealer Alfred Flechtheim, who was persecuted by the Reich, reports TAN.
    — Brian Boucher, ARTnews.com, 16 July 2026
  • Representatives of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine have been persecuted.
    — Mark Temnycky, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026
Definition of persecuted
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  • Where the film diverts from the norm lies in the unique, complicated characters and their weird, tortured even touching relationships.
    — Randy Myers, Mercury News, 16 July 2026
  • Along these routes, the bulldozers piled up mounds to enclose fortified compounds, military outposts and detention facilities where Palestinians were interrogated and tortured.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 July 2026
Definition of tortured
Verb
  • Their absence clearly tormented him, but his total dependence on Sara seemed to embarrass him, too.
    — Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 13 July 2026
  • The three-paragraph note compared Lyons to a Nazi and predicted that Lyons would be tormented by his own conscience.
    — Jude Joffe-Block, NPR, 6 July 2026
Definition of tormented
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