Both Uses
harrowing
in
The Phantom of the Opera
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- Love, jealousy, hatred, burst out around us in harrowing cries.†
Chpt 12 *
- Yes, dear, and I must tell you that it was not his frightful threats when setting me free that helped me to keep my word, but the harrowing sob which he gave on the threshold of the tomb....That sob attached me to the unfortunate man more than I myself suspected when saying good-by to him.†
Chpt 12
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."