Word - Harrowing

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Harrowing

adjective
1. extremely disturbing or distressing; grievous:
a harrowing experience.

Synonyms
painful, agonizing, tormenting, heartbreaking.

Harrow
noun
1. an agricultural implement with spikelike teeth or upright disks, drawn chiefly over plowed land to level it, break up clods, root up weeds, etc.
verb (used with object)
2. to draw a harrow over (land).
3. to disturb keenly or painfully; distress the mind, feelings, etc., of.
verb (used without object)
4. to become broken up by harrowing, as soil.

verb (used with object), Archaic.
1. to ravish; violate; despoil.
2. harry (def 2).