harrow up

verb

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.”

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Meanings

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

present singular third person harrows up · participle present harrowing up · participle past harrowed up · past harrowed up

  1. archaicTo 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.

    1 more example

    “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
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