harrowing
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Is harrowing a Scrabble word?
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Definition
adj (English)
1. (formal) Causing pain or distress; harrying.Examples: "Harrowing journeys down the dark roads of anger, violence, and madness"; "Toward the end of the war, Benoit was sent off on his own with forged papers; he wound up working as a horse groom at a chalet in the Loire valley. Mandelbrot describes this harrowing youth with great sangfroid."formal
noun (English)
1. Ravaging; hostile incursion; spoliation; intentional widespread destruction.Examples: "As in other myths, like Christ's harrowing of hell, the initiate descends into the netherworld for the magical three days."; "In the harrowing, Christ sweeps down upon death, hell, and the Devil, smashes down the doors of hell, and triumphantly carries the just off to heaven."; "The motif of the harrowing of hell was highly influential in the Insular world."
Definition source: Wiktionary