Synonym: agonising, agonizing, excruciating, torturesome, torturing, torturous. Similar words: harrow, throw in, arrow, narrow, sparrow, flowing, owing to, blowing. Meaning: ['hærəʊɪŋ] 
adj. extremely painful.
adj. extremely painful. 
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61. It is the names that make this volume harrowing, singularly distressing, exceptionally depressing.
62. There is a harrowing moment when each middle-class families first starts to undertand that its gilt-edged securities and War Loan will never recover.
63. On a large television screen the previous day, Elisabeth, 42, had confronted her father with the full horror of her 24-year ordeal in hour after hour of harrowing prerecorded testimony.
64. It is the names that make this volume uniquely harrowing, singularly distressing, exceptionally depressing.
65. But by the end of this harrowing year of debt, it was hard . to be confident.
66. The film accompanies the men on their harrowing search, as they increasingly question their mission.