harrow up

verb

harrow up

verb
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:

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