harrowing


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har·row·ing

 (hăr′ō-ĭng)
adj.
Extremely distressing; agonizing: a harrowing experience.
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
harrow, harrowing - To harrow is to wound the feelings or cause to suffer—which gives us harrowing.
See also related terms for suffer.
Farlex Trivia Dictionary. © 2012 Farlex, Inc. All rights reserved.
ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Adj.1.harrowing - extremely painfulharrowing - extremely painful      
agonising, agonizing, excruciating, torturesome, torturing, torturous
painful - causing physical or psychological pain; "worked with painful slowness"
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harrowing

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harrowing

adjective
Extraordinarily painful or distressing:
agonizing, anguishing, excruciating, tormenting, torturous.
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Translations
مُؤْلِم للمَشاعِر
trýznivý
szívszaggató
skelfilegur
mokošssirdi plosošs
trýznivý
üzücü

harrowing

[ˈhærəʊɪŋ] ADJ (= distressing) → angustioso; (= awful) → espeluznante, terrible; (= moving) → conmovedor
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

harrowing

[ˈhærəʊɪŋ] adj [story, picture] → déchirant(e); [experience] → atroce
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

harrowing

adj story, picture etc → entsetzlich, erschütternd, grauenhaft; experience → qualvoll, grauenhaft; time → entsetzlich
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

harrowing

[ˈhærəʊɪŋ] adj (experience, story) → straziante, sconvolgente
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

harrowing

(ˈhӕrəuiŋ) adjective
extremely distressing. a harrowing experience.
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.
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It was a trembling and ashen-hued Usanga who tumbled out of the fuselage, for his nerves were still on edge as a result of the harrowing experience of the loop, yet with terra firma once more under foot, he quickly regained his composure.
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Other thoughts followed, on which it was less harrowing to dwell.
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Never would Edna Pontellier forget the shock with which she heard Madame Ratignolle relating to old Monsieur Farival the harrowing story of one of her accouchements, withholding no intimate detail.
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