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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
acute, afflictive, agonizing, alarming, atrocious, biting, chilling, consuming, cramping, cruel, daunting, desolating, disconcerting, dismaying, disquieting, distressing, disturbing, excruciating, frightening, gnawing, grave, griping, hard, harsh, heartbreaking, heartrending, heartsickening, heartwounding, horrible, horrifying, hurtful, hurting, nerve-racking, painful, paroxysmal, piercing, poignant, pungent, racking, rending, severe, sharp, shooting, spasmatic, spasmic, spasmodic, stabbing, stinging, tearing, terrifying, tormenting, torturing, torturous, traumatic, upsetting, vexing, worrisome, worrying
Dictionary Results for harrowing:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
harrowing
    adj 1: extremely painful [syn: agonizing, agonising,
           excruciating, harrowing, torturing, torturous,
           torturesome]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Harrow \Har"row\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Harrowed
   (h[a^]r"r[-o]d); p. pr. & vb. n. Harrowing.] [OE. harowen,
   harwen; cf. Dan. harve. See Harrow, n.]
   1. To draw a harrow over, as for the purpose of breaking
      clods and leveling the surface, or for covering seed; as,
      to harrow land.
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            Will he harrow the valleys after thee? --Job xxxix.
                                                  10.
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   2. To break or tear, as with a harrow; to wound; to lacerate;
      to torment or distress; to vex.
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            My aged muscles harrowed up with whips. --Rowe.
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            I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word
            Would harrow up thy soul.             --Shak.
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