Harrowing is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for HARROWING in dictionary:

VERB:
• draw a harrow over (land)
• cause distress to
NOUN:
• the act of causing acute distress
• an implement consisting of a heavy frame set with teeth or tines which is dragged over ploughed land to break up clods, remove weeds, and cover seed.
ADJECTIVE:
• acutely distressing
• extremely painful
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to break up and level soil

Words related to HARROWING

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Words that contain HARROWING

harrowings17 harrowingly21

How to use HARROWING in a sentence

• Pennington was not yet in good shape, after his harrowing experiences of the day before.
• As I saw them my heart throbbed with a great exultation, for the memory of his harrowing dream rushed across my mind.
• Nor is this all that the harrowing tale might disclose.
• While she was gone, Miss Prescott entertained the young officer with many tales of her harrowing experiences on the Nevada desert.
• The lifting had strained her, and there were patches of hide worn off her the size of breakfast-plates, sore and most harrowing to look upon.
• But her lingering feeling for her husband, her own mortification, were as nothing compared with the harrowing anxiety she now entertained for her daughter.
• I gave her the story of the accident in a few words, without laying too much stress on some too harrowing details.
• It was not the harrowing, heart-breaking immobility of those long months aboard the Freja.
• We spent the day in idleness, for the adventures of the preceding night were too harrowing to allow our minds to become settled on any kind of work.
• It either spelled retreat in a harrowing dawn with the marshal and Silas at his heels or a temporary sojourn in a village jail.
• He goes into details, tells harrowing stories concerning hair-raising escapes from shot and shell.
• He succeeded only in losing the latter in a fashion less harrowing to his vanity, less obnoxious to his self-respect.
• Harrowing is generally done just before planting, and with some crops just after, to cover seeds or to smooth the ground.
• He had the haggard look of one who has come through a long series of harrowing experiences up to the supreme torture where there is nothing worse that can happen.
• Nor could he banish from his mind the harrowing thought that perhaps, for all his gray hair and painted wrinkles and fine clothes, Rose in truth had recognized him.
• It was indeed a harrowing tale, and one which drew a full meed of sympathy from the maiden.
• One freshman, however, found those two weeks harrowing.
• You come to me with a really harrowing story of your new experiences, and just as I am beginning to get interested we are interrupted.
• Had genuine bereavement ever been theirs, they would find only harrowing pain in such things.
• There is also the further advantage that the labor of harrowing at a season that is usually a busy one is dispensed with.
• Yet he always avoided those harrowing details which make some of the pictures of the older masters too painful to contemplate.
• The women, old men and children, were busy on the farms ploughing, harrowing and putting in the seed.
• Oh! Renee, to be alone with a harrowing thought drives one to thoughts of death.
• Exposing manure to the atmosphere, spread out on the land for several months, and harrowing it occasionally, will do much to render its constituents available.
• Harrowing every one of these screams, taken by itself.
• At night, too, the hemp-beater tells his harrowing tales.
• He had spent a harrowing evening discussing authors of whom he knew nothing, and their books, of which he knew less.

Similar words containing HARROW without suffix ing

harrow12 harrows13 harrowed15 harrower14 harrowers15 harrowings17 harrowment18 restharrow16 harrowingly21 harrowments19 restharrows17

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