Both Uses
harrowing
in
Enrique's Journey (Adapted for Young People)
(Edited)
- He was seventeen, a little older than the average unaccompanied child caught entering the United States by immigration authorities, but his story was just as harrowing as those I had heard from other children and teens who had taken the journey.
p. 10.6harrowing = frightening or unsettling
- There have been many harrowing atrocities in these dark spaces, between the tombstones, worst of all rape and murder.
p. 67.2 *harrowing = frightening
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."