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harrowing
[ har-oh-ing ]
adjective
- extremely disturbing or distressing; grievous:
a harrowing experience.
Synonyms: heartbreaking, agonizing, painful
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Other Words From
- harrow·ing·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins
Origin of harrowing1
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Example Sentences
As the year draws to a close, these goals remain unfulfilled and the news from CAR continues to be harrowing.
She also tracks his deteriorating health through the harrowing videos of the captives regularly released by the Nusra Front.
His harrowing escape from Vienna when Hitler took Austria in March 1938 is dramatically chronicled in his memoirs.
On Thursday, Detective Superintendent McDonald described his account as “harrowing” and compelling.
Court painter to the Spanish Crown, he is perhaps best known for his harrowing Disasters of War series.
Harrowing makes finer the lumps near the surface, and mixes the fertilizer deeper than a rake can be used.
Mike and Joe would finish harrowing the potato field and begin planting.
Reaching my farm at eight, I found Joe harrowing in manure on the garden and Mike sowing peas.
There is nothing either harrowing or cabalistic in the place; and you can see nothing but two forms, a screen, and a crucifix.
At last the gangway was removed, and a kind of quietness fell upon the crowd, waiting for the next harrowing sensation.
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