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harrow up

harrow up verb: to bring to the surface.

Verb

harrow up (third-person singular simple present harrows up, present participle harrowing up, simple past and past participle harrowed up)

  1. (archaic) To bring to the surface.
    • When I arrived within sight or hearing of the army, it again harrowed up my melancholy feelings that had subsided on my journey.
    • “This night she followed him to a gambling hall, and when he left she met him, harrowed up his guilty soul with a narration of her wrongs, and then she did as I do now” — and I drew my revolver and cocked it — “and sent his black soul to the devil who gave it!”1861, E. J. Guerin, Mountain Charley, page 27

Forms of harrow up

third-person singular presentharrows up
present participleharrowing up
past participleharrowed up
pastharrowed up

Questions about harrow up

What does harrow up mean?
Harrow up means to bring to the surface.
What part of speech is harrow up?
Harrow up is a verb.
What is the past tense of harrow up?
The past tense of harrow up is harrowed up.

Words near harrow up in the dictionary

  1. Harrovians
  2. harrow
  3. Harrow drive
  4. Harrow drives
  5. Harrow on the Hill
  6. harrow up
  7. Harrow Weald
  8. Harrowden
  9. harrowed
  10. harrowed up
  11. Harrowell

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