LekhoriLekhoripresent participle and gerund of harrow.
Causing pain or distress; harrying.
Harrowing journeys down the dark roads of anger, violence, and madness
The process of breaking up earth with a harrow.
The field received two harrowings.
Suffering, torment.
Ravaging; hostile incursion; spoliation; intentional widespread destruction.
By surface analysis, harrow + -ing.
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Scientists who complain about the helplessness of politicians might consider the desolation in England which followed the harrowing of the north by William the Conqueror or the state of the Palatinate long after the end of the Thirty Years War[.]