Harrowing

What do we mean by harrowing?

Extremely distressing; agonizing. adjective

Same as harrying. noun

Heart-rending; excruciating; distressful; tragic: as, the harrowing details of a murder.

Present participle of harrow. verb

Causing pain or distress. adjective

Extremely painful adjective

To drag a harrow over; to break up with a harrow.

To traumatize or disturb; to frighten or torment.

To break or tear, as if with a harrow; to wound; to lacerate; to torment or distress; to vex.

Intense, dangerous Urban Dictionary

Japanese English for 'hello'. Upon leaving Heathrow airport many Japanese tourists, trying to greet the taxi driver, unwittingly ask to go to Harrow. This has resulted in many Japanese people in the town of Harrow. Urban Dictionary

An action in which a tractor pulls a harrowbar across a field in order to smooth dirt lumps and disperse crop stubble so that planting can begin Urban Dictionary

Home of a posh school with boys sniffing at other people and remarking rudely about them. Makes me laugh. Pupils think that everyone else are chavs Urban Dictionary

Japanese English for 'hello'. Upon leaving Heathrow airport many Japanese tourists, trying to greet the taxi driver, unwittingly ask to go to Harrow. This has resulted in many Japanese people in the town of Harrow. Urban Dictionary

The best sports company ever! Field hockey, lacrosse, squash, paddle, ice hockey... Harrow is just awesome. Kinda expensive thoughh... but so worth it! Urban Dictionary

Meaning "hi" or "hey", used on AIM and such. Created by Kayte :) Urban Dictionary

Hello Urban Dictionary

The champion of champions in Ultima Online. After you kill all of the felucca champs in each dungeon and collect their skulls and place them on the altar in the star room this loser spawns in a random dungeon. you go with a raid party and beat his a$$ and then the true harrower spawns. this guy is a total loser who has tentacles surrounding him that do area damage and he can also teleport you next to him 4tpwn. couple this with the fact that enemy guilds always try to steal harry spawns from you b/c he drops stat scrolls, and you are in for a big pain in the a$$ fight. Urban Dictionary

A shit school in Hong Kong Urban Dictionary

Words that are spelled similarly to harrowing:
harrowing, marrowing, narrowing, farrowing, arrowing, parroting, burrowing, harboring, borrowing, harrying, furrowing, sorrowing, hallowing, garroting, carroting, harring, morrowing.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word harrowing:
ordeal, heartbreaking, hell, hades, bleak, experiences, journey, tale, depiction, despair, creed, resurrection, memoir, tragedy, rape, addiction, tales, adventures, experience, voyage, aftermath, narrative, survival, wartime, encounter, escape, hoping, portrayal, christ, chase, emotional, terror, account, circumstances, descent, soil, praised, scenes, story, horror, accounts, detail, reader, quest, abuse, moments, violent, footage, stories, childhood, struggle, retreat, trip, sight, surprise, survive, dangerous, ride, moment, dramatic, portrait, psychological, powerful, readers, violence.

Words that rhyme with harrowing:
narrowing, air owing, care owing, elsewhere owing, rare owing, there owing.

Adjectives that are often used to describe harrowing:
more, most, less, thorough, light, final, little, last, frequent, subsequent, second, cross, peculiarly, early, pretty, occasional, deep, double, constant, careful, disc, tooth, genuinely, quietest, downright, extra, simultaneous, preliminary, continued, apocryphal, hell, inefficient, century, incessant, busy, suitable, wonderful, sentimental, majestic, thirteenth, deeper, spectacular, shallow.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective harrowing:
tale, story, details, scene, journey, picture, experiences, time, experience, night, trip, description, day, days, spectacle, circumstances, period, tales, escape, moment, scenes, ride, voyage, adventures, incidents, stories, situation, months, encounter, question, narrative, accounts, drive, hours, vision, struggle, effects, trek, sense, week, task, passage, cry, prospect, scream, moments, episodes, case, weeks, consciousness, recital, nightmare, book, sound, dream, anxieties, descriptions, account, sight, present, morning, memory, sights, evening, portrait, visit, consequences, childhood, month, job, difficulties, look, afternoon, subject, ordeal, thoughts, novel, pictures, portrayal, crisis, recollection, sequence, climax, depiction, facts, saga.

Consonant match to harrowing:
harrying.

Words that sound like harrowing:
harrowing, harrying, heroin, heroine, herring, haring, hooraying, narrowing, hearing, hereon, harry hill, hiring, harming, hurrying, whoring, horning, harping, hairpin, horsing, hearting, herrin, harking, herin, hireling, hair pin, harring, harling, harting, harim, hair raising, highering, zeroing, high rolling, tarrying, carrying, marrying, burying, borrowing, sorrowing, wearying, dairying, parrying, berrying, heroic, heron, harem, herein, herron, heroines, haren, harum, herren, hear him, herem, herrmann, heren, herum, hartung, herrman, heroina, hornung, hairy tongue, wearing, waring, wareing, hurting, hairline, hoarding, harding, hurling, hemming, hoeing, harvin, hair line, hollowing, herro, henning, hording, hedging, hering, harrowed, heming, harkin, hoing, herrings, hallowing, herridge, helling, harlin, hartin, herling, harsin, herzing, horn in, hething, horsin, herning, arrowing, hair comb, hirling.