Synonyms for Harrowing:
adj.
•dangerous, frightening (adjective)disturbing, terrifying, alarming, painful, tormenting, torturous, chilling, agonizing, nerve-racking, excruciating.
•painful (adjective)
sore, stinging, bothersome, agonizing, stabbing, horrendous, grueling, odious, smarting, aggravating, burdensome, withering, arduous, cutting, biting, wrenching, inflaming, woeful, miserable, acute, crushing, annoying, distressful, troublesome, chafing, painful, uncomfortable, disagreeable, offensive, Cramping, excruciating, Torturing., grievous, oppressive, anguishing, irritating, cruel, unbearable, unpleasant, hurtful, aching, Irksome, tormenting, insufferable, piercing, trying, Besetting, throbbing, Gnawing, bitter, severe.
n.
eerie, ghastly, spooky, scary, chilling, menacing, awesome. pain. •harrowing (noun)excruciating, painful, Torturing., torturous, agonizing, torturesome, agonising.
v.
•frightening (verb)horrifying, unnerving, frightening, threatening, panicking, setting on edge, terrifying, rattling, agitating, intimidating, Scaring, haunting, alarming, disturbing, petrifying.
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•Other relevant words:
ghastly, awesome, spooky, agonising, eerie, torturesome, nerve-racking, chilling, menacing, scary, pain, torturous.
Usage examples for harrowing
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Then, too, he recoiled from Francois' purely intellectual labour, for he himself had scarcely emerged from the harrowing study of conflicting texts. – Paris From the "Three Cities" by Emile Zola
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We can not too strongly recommend harrowing corn as soon as it comes out of the ground. – Soil Culture by J. H. Walden
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I was told that scarce an inmate of the fatal neighbourhood where I had left my family had escaped; and convinced, finally, that my fate was still pursuing me with an unmitigated wrath, of which this last blow was but a single expression, that I might have foreseen and expected, I madly agreed to work my passage in the first vessel which promised me an escape from scenes so fraught with harrowing recollections. – The Lamplighter by Maria S. Cummins