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1. Extremely painful
   "Stephanie reveals the near-tragic personal story that compelled her into this harrowing career"
   - agonizing, agonising [Brit], excruciating, torturing, torturous, torturesome

1. Draw a harrow over (land)
   - disk [US], disc
    
2. To drag a harrow over; to break up with a harrow

See also: painful

Type of: plough [Brit, Cdn], plow [N. Amer], turn

Encyclopedia: Harrow, London Harrow, England Harrow Harrow, Victoria Harrow, Ontario Harrow, Middlesex