harrowing

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   present participle and gerund of harrow.

2. 2

   Causing pain or distress

   Causing pain or distress; harrying.

   • Harrowing journeys down the dark roads of anger, violence, and madness
   • Toward the end of the war, Benoit was sent off on his own with forged papers; he wound up working as a horse groom at a chalet in the Loire valley. Mandelbrot describes this harrowing youth with great sangfroid.
3. 3

   The process of breaking up earth with a harrow.

   • The field received two harrowings.
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   1. 4

      Suffering, torment.

   2. 5

      Ravaging

      Ravaging; hostile incursion; spoliation; intentional widespread destruction.

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