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harrow: to lacerate (the feelings), distress Ham. I. i. 44 “it h-s me with fear and wonder,” I. v. 16 “a tale . . . whose lightest word Would up thy soul” ; with play on the lit. sense Cor. V. iii. 34 “Let the Volsces Plough Rome, and harrow Italy.”
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