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单词 harrowing
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harrowingadj.

/ˈharəʊɪŋ/
Etymology: < harrow v.1
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).

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ˈharrowing
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.
extracted from harrowv.1
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.
extracted from harrowv.2
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adj.1799
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