distress vs harrow

distress

verb
  • To cause strain or anxiety to someone. 

  • To treat a new object to give it an appearance of age. 

  • To retain someone’s property against the payment of a debt; to distrain. 

noun
  • A cause of such discomfort. 

  • The thing taken by distraining; that which is seized to procure satisfaction. 

  • Physical or emotional discomfort, suffering, or alarm, particularly of a more acute nature. 

  • Serious danger. 

  • A seizing of property without legal process to force payment of a debt. 

  • An aversive state of stress to which a person cannot fully adapt. 

harrow

verb
  • To traumatize or disturb; to frighten or torment. 

  • To drag a harrow over; to break up with a harrow. 

  • To break or tear, as if with a harrow; to wound; to lacerate; to torment or distress; to vex. 

noun
  • An obstacle formed by turning an ordinary harrow upside down, the frame being buried. 

  • A device consisting of a heavy framework having several disks or teeth in a row, which is dragged across ploughed land to smooth or break up the soil, to remove weeds or cover seeds; a harrow plow. 

How often have the words distress and harrow occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )