harrowing
/ˈhæɹəʊ.ɪŋ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.07 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The process of breaking up earth with a harrow.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "The field received two harrowings."
- "Scientists who complain about the helplessness of politicians might consider the desolation in England which followed the harrowing of the north by William the Conqueror or the state of the Palatinate long after the end of the Thirty Years War[.]"
- "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."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /ˈhæɹəʊ.ɪŋ/