Both Uses of
harrowing
in
Gone with the Wind
- He must know how harrowing her experience had been, must know she did not want to spend an evening at Melanie's when her tired body and jangled nerves cried out for the warm relaxation of bed and blankets—with a hot brick to make her toes tingle and a hot toddy to soothe her fears.†
Chpt 4.45
- How he must have loved harrowing them with descriptions of her activities with the store, the mills, the saloon.†
Chpt 5.56 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(harrowing as in: a harrowing story) frightening or unsettling
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Much more rarely, harrowing can mean breaking apart soil on a farm. Even more rarely (and archaically), it can mean harrying or harassing as in: "We are harrowing their army as they advance northward."