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harrowing

[ har-oh-ing ]

adjective

  1. extremely disturbing or distressing; grievous:

    a harrowing experience.

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Other Word Forms

  • 󲹰۴Ƿ·Բ· adverb
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Word History and Origins

Origin of harrowing1

First recorded in 1800–10; harrow 1 + -ing 2
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Judge Martin Picton thanked the jury for their work on an "utterly harrowing" case.

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The artist and his partner were sitting in the dark, on their phones, glued to the news as harrowing details came out of the Palisades.

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It is so expertly crafted, so harrowing, it reads as though it is fiction because something this tragic and awful couldn’t possibly be real.

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follows is a surreal adventure complete with harrowing eugenics experiments and lynchings, hair’s-breadth escapes and unlikely alliances.

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The film has been called "the most harrowing – and honest – depiction of modern combat ever made" by the Telegraph, while the New Yorker said it offers a "hyperrealist rebuke of the American war movie".

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