harrowing
IPA: hˈɛroʊɪŋ
noun
- The process of breaking up earth with a harrow.
- Suffering, torment.
- Ravaging; hostile incursion; spoliation; intentional widespread destruction.
- (Christianity) Christ's ravaging or hostile incursion of Hell, conducted between his crucifixion and resurrection, in which he liberated the souls of the righteous held captive by Satan.
adjective
- Causing pain or distress.
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Examples of "harrowing" in Sentences
- The farmer is harrowing a field.
- The stories are harrowing and cruel.
- The world needed brushing, not harrowing.
- This harrowing tale is prison writing in the raw.
- The apartment search, three months long, was harrowing.
- This harrowing musical premiered in the US in October 2006.
- The story of the harrowing was popular during the Middle Ages.
- The experience was harrowing and haunted Kandegas ever afterward.
- It was but one of the harrowing experiences that they encountered.
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