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the harrowing
adjective
Causing pain or distress.
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The harrowing evacuation of hundreds of patients made headlines nationwide.
They explain the harrowing lives of firecracker makers.
Writer describes the harrowing Weather Channel broadcast during Floyd.
Writer describes the harrowing Weather Channel broadcast during Floyd..
Survivors of the harrowing journey offer testimony to the violence.
The harrowing discords emerging from his fingers had evidently echoed in his ears as celestial harmonies".
For obvious reasons, the harrowing images upset some women who had been victims of male violence.
Many may also have been swayed by impotently witnessing the harrowing death of a loved relative.
But amid the harrowing events taking place, the author inserts a ray of hope.
A light-green 1950 Cadillac convertible was deliberately wrecked during the harrowing final scene.
But while our learned response is to clap, the harrowing quality of Osipova's performance silences us.
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