harrow
(hæroʊ )
Word forms: harrows
countable noun
A harrow is a piece of farm equipment consisting of a row of blades fixed to a heavy frame. When it is pulled over ploughed land, the blades break up large lumps of soil.
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Collocations:
harrowing account harrowing scene
In writing this moving, harrowing account he has done them a noble service.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Watch victim's harrowing account of crash online.
The Sun (2007)
The harrowing account of how the corporal was wounded reduced many in the audience to tears.
The Sun (2010)
A harrowing account of an unfinished documentary about the liberation of concentration camps.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
The harrowing scene will be shown next month.
The Sun
A particularly harrowing scene shows him defiantly playing his trumpet through pain while blood oozes out his mouth.
The Sun
Outside a harrowing scene played out: the acrid smell of aviation fluid, the valiant attempts by security guards to break into the cabin before the helicopter became engulfed in flames.
Times,Sunday Times
He gets to his office and arrives to a harrowing scene; his co-workers are shredding documents and are in a state of chaos.
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There were harrowing scenes at hospitals as relatives waited for news of the missing and injured.
Times, Sunday Times
- high-profile event
- high-profile example
- high-profile failure
- high-profile figure
- high-profile guest
- high-profile incident
- high-profile investigation
- high-profile player
- high-profile politician
- high-profile position
- high-profile project
- high-profile prosecution
- high-profile role
- high-profile scandal
- high-profile target
- high-profile trial
- high-profile visit
- high profit
- high propensity to
- high proportion of
- high-protein diet
- high quality
- high-quality care
- high-ranking
- high-ranking member