Usually means: Extremely distressing, difficult, or painful.
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  1. harrowing: Merriam-Webster
  2. harrowing: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. harrowing: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. harrowing: Collins English Dictionary
  5. harrowing: Vocabulary.com
  6. Harrowing, harrowing: Wordnik
  7. harrowing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. harrowing: Wiktionary
  9. harrowing: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. harrowing: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Harrowing, harrowing: Dictionary.com
  12. harrowing: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Harrowing, The Harrowing (Inside No. 9), The Harrowing: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Harrowing: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. harrowing: Rhymezone
  16. Harrowing: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. harrowing: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. harrowing: FreeDictionary.org
  19. harrowing: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. harrowing: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. harrowing: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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(Note: See harrow as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Causing pain or distress; harrying.
noun:  The process of breaking up earth with a harrow.
noun:  Suffering, torment.
noun:  Ravaging; hostile incursion; spoliation; intentional widespread destruction.
noun:  (Christianity) Christ's ravaging or hostile incursion of Hell, conducted between his crucifixion and resurrection, in which he liberated the souls of the righteous held captive by Satan.

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