harrowing
11harrowing — adj. Harrowing is used with these nouns: ↑experience, ↑journey, ↑tale …
12harrowing — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. distressing, wrenching, tragic, nerve racking. See pain. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. frightening, tormenting, trying, nerve racking; see also disturbing . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) (VOCABULARY… …
13harrowing — har|row|ing [ herouıŋ ] adjective extremely worrying, upsetting, or frightening: a harrowing experience …
14harrowing — adjective a harrowing experience for the hostages Syn: distressing, distressful, traumatic, upsetting; shocking, disturbing, painful, haunting, appalling, horrifying …
15harrowing — UK [ˈhærəʊɪŋ] / US [ˈheroʊɪŋ] adjective extremely worrying, upsetting, or frightening a harrowing experience …
16Harrowing of Hell — • This is the Old English and Middle English term for the triumphant descent of Christ into hell (or Hades) between the time of His Crucifixion and His Resurrection, when, according to Christian belief, He brought salvation to the souls held… …
17Harrowing of Hell — The Harrowing of Hell, depicted in the Petites Heures de Jean de Berry, 14th c. illuminated manuscript commissioned by John, Duke of Berry. The Harrowing of Hell (Latin Descensus Christi ad Inferos the descent of Christ into hell ) is a doctrine… …
18Harrowing of Hell — (Anastasis, Descent into Limbo) In medieval Christian tradition, the soul of Christ was believed to have descended into hell after his crucifixion and before his resurrection, and to have delivered from their imprisonment the souls of the… …
19Harrowing of Hell (drama) — The Harrowing of Hell is a eighth century Latin piece in fifty five lines found in the Anglo Saxon Book of Cerne (folios 98v ndash;99v). It is probably a Northumbrian piece, written in prose and verse, where the former serves either as a set of… …
20harrowing — Synonyms and related words: acute, afflictive, agonizing, alarming, atrocious, biting, chilling, consuming, cramping, cruel, daunting, desolating, disconcerting, dismaying, disquieting, distressing, disturbing, excruciating, frightening, gnawing …
