All 3 Uses
harrowing
in
Seabiscuit, by Hillenbrand
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- He drove his Buicks in breakneck speed races at Tanforan and harebrained hill climbs up the harrowing grades of Diablo Hill and Grizzly Peak.†
Chpt 1.1 *
- He moved on to a harrowing career as an exercise boy, then became a jockey.†
Chpt 1.3
- A cross-country journey was a harrowing ordeal, five days of clanging, rocking, and bumping in a confined space.†
Chpt 2.7
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) 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."