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harrowingadjective hard to accept or bear especially emotionallya harrowing portrayal of the ravages of war afflicting, agonizing, bitter, cruel, excruciating, galling, grievous, harsh, heartrending, hurtful, painful, tormenting, torturous insufferable, insupportable, intolerable, unacceptable, unbearable, unendurable, unsupportableappalling, awful, bad, dire, dreadful, ghastly, horrible, miserable, nasty, rotten, severe, terrible, vile, wretchedacute, extreme, intense, piercing gratifying, pleasing, sweet bearable, endurable, supportable, sustainable, tolerablelivable(also liveable), sufferable, survivableacceptable, allowable, reasonable intensely or unbearably painfulthe harrowing amputations without any anesthetic that soldiers and sailors once were forced to endure agonizing, excruciating, racking, raging, tormenting, torturing, torturous, wrenching acute, exquisite, extreme, fierce, intense, vehement, violentbiting, cutting, penetrating, piercing, sharp, shooting, smarting, stabbing, stinging, tearing, tingling harrowingverbpresent participle of harrowto cause persistent suffering tothe villagers were gaunt and sickly, harrowed by years of disease and starvation afflicting, agonizing, anguishing, bedeviling, besetting, besieging, cursing, excruciating, persecuting, plaguing, racking, tormenting, torturing assailing, attackingbadgering, dogging, hounding, pursuing, ridingaggravating, agitating, annoying, bothering, bugging, chafing, distressing, disturbing, exasperating, galling, getting, grating, griping, hagriding, harassing, harrying, irking, irritating, molesting, nettling, peeving, pestering, piquing, putting out, rasping, riling, vexingdiscomforting, discomposing, disquieting, flustering, grieving, perturbing, straining, stressing, troubling, trying, upsetting, worryingcrushing, oppressing, overpowering, overwhelming, smiting, striking, tyrannizing, victimizinghurting, paining, panging, pricking, smarting, stabbing, stinging, wringingmartyring abetting, aiding, assisting, helpingdelivering, releasing, relieving, reprievingcomforting, consoling, contenting, quieting, solacing, soothing, succoring in 1799 |