gut-wrenching
involving great distress or anguish; agonizing: a gut-wrenching decision.
Words that may be confused with gut-wrenching
- gut-wrenching , heartrending
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How to use gut-wrenching in a sentence
The scenes of Turing undergoing the chemical castration are really gut wrenching.
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British Dictionary definitions for gut-wrenching
informal causing great distress or suffering: gut-wrenching scenes
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