Harrowing synonyms

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agonizing
Causing agony.
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disturbing (related)
Causing distress or worry; upsetting or unsettling.
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frightening
Causing fear; of capable of causing fear; scary.
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excruciating
Causing intense physical or mental pain; agonizing
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nerve-racking
Very trying to one's patience or equanimity; causing irritation or exasperation
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anguishing
Extraordinarily painful or distressing
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torturous
Extremely painful or difficult
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pain (related)
Extraordinarily painful or distressing
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trying
The definition of trying is defined as an irritating person or thing.
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unfrightening (antonym)
Not frightening.
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calming (antonym)
dangerous, frightening
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pleasant (antonym)
The definition of pleasant is someone or something that is agreeable, enjoyable or likable.
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chilling
Causing cold.
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dangerous
Full of danger; likely to cause injury, pain, etc.; unsafe; perilous
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tilling
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traumatic
Of, caused by, or causing trauma
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upsetting
That causes or cause upset.
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safe (antonym)
Free from danger or injury; undamaged or unhurt:
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pleasing (antonym)
Giving pleasure; pleasant; agreeable; gratifying
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agonising
extremely painful
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torturing
extremely painful
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torturesome
extremely painful
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cultivating
To turn or stir soil in preparation for planting.
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digging
(Slang) To have understanding:
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dragging
(Baseball) To hit (a ball) in executing a drag bunt
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despoiling
To ruin, especially by destroying or removing what is valuable:
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spoiling
The definition of spoil is to destroy something, to diminish the character of something, to overindulge someone, or to go bad and become unusable or inedible.
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stripping
(Bridge) To remove all cards of a particular suit from another player. (See also, strip-squeeze.)
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sacking
To put in a sack or sacks.
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ravaging
To pillage or sack something, to lay waste to something
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raping
(US slang, chiefly Internet) To overpower, destroy (someone); to trounce. [from 20th c.]
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ransacking
To loot or pillage. See also sack.
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plundering
To make extensive (over)use of, as if by plundering; to use or use up wrongfully.
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pillaging
Pillage is defined as to take something by force.
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looting
To plunder; strip of valuables; despoil
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shovelling (related)
Shovel is defined as to lift and move with a shovel.
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plowing (related)
To cut and turn up (soil) with a plow
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giving (related)
To perform for an audience:
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terrifying
Of a formidable nature; terrific
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Harrowing Sentence Examples

  • The train crash was a harrowing experience for everyone involved.

  • I don't think I could live through such a harrowing event again.

  • Because of her harrowing experience on an out-of-control roller coaster, Julia refuses to step foot in an amusement park.

  • Emma teared up watching the harrowing scenes of the holocaust documentary.

  • No matter how hard I try, I cannot get the harrowing images of the attack out of my head.

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