单词 | harrowing |
释义 | harrowingadj. That harrows or lacerates the feelings; acutely distressing or painful. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > mental anguish or torment > cause of mental anguish or torment > [adjective] anguishous?c1225 wounding?c1225 asperc1374 derflya1400 rending?c1400 furiousc1405 fretting1413 piercingc1450 anguish1477 piquant1521 anguishing?1566 plaguing1566 asperous?1567 agonizing1570 tormenting1575 wringing1576 cutting1582 tormentous1583 tormentful1596 tormentuous1597 racking1598 torturous1600 lacerating1609 torturing1611 tearinga1616 heart-aching1620 breast-rending1625 crucifying1648 tormentative1654 martyring?a1656 tormentive1655 discruciating1658 cruciatory1660 anguishful1685 brain-racking1708 probing1749 agonized1793 anguished1803 harrowing1810 vulnerary1821 grinding1869 torturesome1889 wrenching1889 tortuous1922 1810 W. Scott Lady of Lake iv. 150 My soul with harrowing anguish torn. 1885 Law Rep.: Queen's Bench Div. 14 279 Other details yet more harrowing..were presented to the jury. Derivatives ˈharrowingly adv. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > mental anguish or torment > cause of mental anguish or torment > [adverb] unsoftOE sharplya1023 derfly?c1225 derfc1325 pinefullyc1390 anguishouslyc1440 heinouslya1555 tormentingly1575 keenlya1593 cuttingly1611 torturingly?a1625 stingingly1667 severelya1682 piercingly1781 harrowingly1799 excruciatingly1808 martyrly1819 pinchingly1825 crucifyingly1826 torturously1857 woundingly1887 scarifyingly1921 1799 W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. 28 179 Scarcely any single figure so divinely yet harrowingly expressive. 1843 Fraser's Mag. 27 19 The prayer for annihilation is more harrowingly terrific. ˈharrowingness n. ΚΠ 1883 Academy 29 Dec. 426 The..tragic and sordid harrowingness [of life]. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2018). > as lemmasˈharrowing ˈharrowing n. ΚΠ ?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. viii As moche plowynge and harowynge. 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Harrowed after the maner of backe harrowynge, pectitus. 1785 G. Washington Writings (1891) XII. 225 After three ploughings and three harrowings, sowed millet. 1888 Athenæum 11 Aug. 189/3 The inevitable harrowing of the reader's feelings. ˈharrowing ˈharrowing n. (Old English hergung) spoiling (of hell), also in general sense, plundering, sacking (of a country). ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [noun] > devastation or desolation harryingc900 harrowingc1000 wastinga1300 destructionc1330 harryc1330 wastenessa1382 wastitya1382 desolation1382 unroningnessa1400 wrackc1407 exile1436 havoc1480 hership1487 vastation1545 vastitude1545 sackc1550 population1552 waste1560 ravishment1570 riotingc1580 pull-down1588 desolating1591 degast1592 devastation1603 ravage1611 wracking1611 ravagement1766 herriment1787 carnage1848 wastage1909 enhavocking- the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > robbery > sacking, raiding, or looting > [noun] harryingc900 harrowingc1000 skeckinga1387 pillagea1393 skickinga1400 forayingc1400 hership1487 direption1528 sackc1550 sacking1560 sackage1577 saccaging1585 picory1591 reprisalc1595 boot-haling1598 booty-haling1611 rapture?1611 ravage1611 prize-taking1633 plunder1643 booting1651 hen roost1762 ravagement1766 raiding1785 loot1839 looting1842 society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > biblical events > [noun] > descent into hell > harrowing of hell harrowingc1000 c1000 [see sense a]. a1450 Chester Pl. xvii. (Harl. 2013) See that you doe well, In pagente sett out the harrowinge of helle. 1599 E. Sandys Europæ Speculum (1632) 184 The harrowing and desolating of the Countrey. 1654 A. Cokayne tr. G. F. Loredano Dianea iii. 234 He came to the harrowing of our Island. 1859 H. Wedgwood Dict. Eng. Etymol. at Harry The harrowing of hell was the triumphant expedition of Christ after his crucifixion, when he brought away the souls of the righteous who had..been held captive in hell since the beginning of the world. < as lemmas |
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