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harrowing
[ har-oh-ing ]
adjective
- extremely disturbing or distressing; grievous:
a harrowing experience.
Synonyms: , ,
Other Word Forms
- ۴Ƿ·Բ· adverb
Word History and Origins
Origin of harrowing1
Example Sentences
Judge Martin Picton thanked the jury for their work on an "utterly harrowing" case.
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.
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.
follows is a surreal adventure complete with harrowing eugenics experiments and lynchings, hair’s-breadth escapes and unlikely alliances.
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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