harrow up

English

Verb

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

1. (archaic) 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.

   • 1861, E. J. Guerin, Mountain Charley, page 27:

     She met him, harrowed up his guilty soul with a narration of her wrongs, […]