"harrowing" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [English]

IPA: /ˈhæɹəʊiŋ/ [UK] Forms: more harrowing [comparative], most harrowing [superlative]
Head templates: {{en-adj}} harrowing (comparative more harrowing, superlative most harrowing)
  1. Causing pain or distress. Translations (causing pain or distress): 使人痛苦的 (shǐ rén tòngkǔ de) (Chinese Mandarin), 慘痛的 (Chinese Mandarin), 惨痛的 (cǎntòng de) (Chinese Mandarin), verstorend (Dutch), vreselijk (Dutch), verschrikkelijk (Dutch), riipaiseva (Finnish), tuskallinen (Finnish), tuskaisa (Finnish), sydäntäraastava (Finnish), raastava (Finnish), navrant (French), éprouvant (French), erschütternd (German), grauenhaft (German), grauenvoll (German), quälend (German), מענה (Hebrew), מייסר (Hebrew), szívszaggató (Hungarian), léanmhar (Irish), straziante (Italian), opprivende (Norwegian), udręczony (Polish), perturbador [masculine] (Portuguese), го́рестный (górestnyj) [masculine] (Russian), душераздира́ющий (dušerazdirájuščij) [masculine] (Russian), мучи́тельный (mučítelʹnyj) [masculine] (Russian), angustioso (Spanish), hemsk (Swedish), upprivande (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-harrowing-en-adj-7yyRbTZd

Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈhæɹəʊiŋ/ [UK] Forms: harrowings [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} harrowing (plural harrowings)
  1. The process of breaking up earth with a harrow. Translations (the process of breaking up earth with a harrow): äestys (Finnish), äestäminen (Finnish), Eggen [neuter] (German), boronálás (Hungarian), erpicatura [feminine] (Italian), occātiō [feminine] (Latin), боронова́ние (boronovánije) [neuter] (Russian), бороне́ние (boronénije) [neuter] (Russian), рыхле́ние (ryxlénije) [neuter] (Russian), культива́ция (kulʹtivácija) [feminine] (Russian), escarificación [feminine] (Spanish), sakalmot (Tagalog)
    Sense id: en-harrowing-en-noun-aJRbcUT3 Categories (other): English links with manual fragments Disambiguation of 'the process of breaking up earth with a harrow': 86 5 4 5
  2. Suffering, torment.
    Sense id: en-harrowing-en-noun-fa6MkMnR
  3. Ravaging; hostile incursion; spoliation; intentional widespread destruction.
    Sense id: en-harrowing-en-noun-4yGkqT4-
  4. Ravaging; hostile incursion; spoliation; intentional widespread destruction.
    (Christianity) Christ's ravaging or hostile incursion of Hell, conducted between his crucifixion and resurrection, in which he liberated the souls of the righteous held captive by Satan.
    Categories (topical): Christianity
    Sense id: en-harrowing-en-noun-pSgFwbAU Topics: Christianity
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: harrowing of hell

Verb [English]

IPA: /ˈhæɹəʊiŋ/ [UK]
Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} harrowing
  1. present participle and gerund of harrow Tags: form-of, gerund, participle, present Form of: harrow
    Sense id: en-harrowing-en-verb-PdcBdWGn Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 13 25 3 14 14 32

Inflected forms

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      "sense": "causing pain or distress",
      "word": "verstorend"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "causing pain or distress",
      "word": "vreselijk"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "causing pain or distress",
      "word": "verschrikkelijk"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "causing pain or distress",
      "word": "riipaiseva"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "causing pain or distress",
      "word": "tuskallinen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "causing pain or distress",
      "word": "tuskaisa"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "causing pain or distress",
      "word": "sydäntäraastava"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "causing pain or distress",
      "word": "raastava"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "causing pain or distress",
      "word": "navrant"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "causing pain or distress",
      "word": "éprouvant"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "causing pain or distress",
      "word": "erschütternd"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "causing pain or distress",
      "word": "grauenhaft"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "causing pain or distress",
      "word": "grauenvoll"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "causing pain or distress",
      "word": "quälend"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "sense": "causing pain or distress",
      "word": "מענה"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "sense": "causing pain or distress",
      "word": "מייסר"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "causing pain or distress",
      "word": "szívszaggató"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "causing pain or distress",
      "word": "léanmhar"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "causing pain or distress",
      "word": "straziante"
    },
    {
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "sense": "causing pain or distress",
      "word": "opprivende"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "causing pain or distress",
      "word": "udręczony"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "causing pain or distress",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "perturbador"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "górestnyj",
      "sense": "causing pain or distress",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "го́рестный"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "dušerazdirájuščij",
      "sense": "causing pain or distress",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "душераздира́ющий"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "mučítelʹnyj",
      "sense": "causing pain or distress",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "мучи́тельный"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "causing pain or distress",
      "word": "angustioso"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "causing pain or distress",
      "word": "hemsk"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "causing pain or distress",
      "word": "upprivande"
    }
  ],
  "word": "harrowing"
}

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          "ref": "1956 April 2, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Chicago, page 122, column 1",
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          "ref": "1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 178",
          "text": "As in other myths, like Christ's harrowing of hell, the initiate descends into the netherworld for the magical three days.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1986, Jeffrey Burton Russell, Lucifer: The Devil in the Middle Ages, page 108",
          "text": "In the harrowing, Christ sweeps down upon death, hell, and the Devil, smashes down the doors of hell, and triumphantly carries the just off to heaven.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002, Michael W. Herren, Shirley Ann Brown, Christ in Celtic Christianity: Britain and Ireland from the Fifth to the Tenth Century, page 157",
          "text": "The motif of the harrowing of hell was highly influential in the Insular world.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Robert E. Bjork, The Cynewulf Reader, page 153",
          "text": "But Juliana's uniquely powerful chaining of the devil is surely meant to recall Christ's harrowing of hell.",
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        }
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      "tags": [
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    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "the process of breaking up earth with a harrow",
      "word": "äestys"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "the process of breaking up earth with a harrow",
      "word": "äestäminen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "the process of breaking up earth with a harrow",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Eggen"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "the process of breaking up earth with a harrow",
      "word": "boronálás"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "the process of breaking up earth with a harrow",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "erpicatura"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "the process of breaking up earth with a harrow",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "occātiō"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "boronovánije",
      "sense": "the process of breaking up earth with a harrow",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "боронова́ние"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "boronénije",
      "sense": "the process of breaking up earth with a harrow",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "бороне́ние"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "ryxlénije",
      "sense": "the process of breaking up earth with a harrow",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "рыхле́ние"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "kulʹtivácija",
      "sense": "the process of breaking up earth with a harrow",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "культива́ция"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "the process of breaking up earth with a harrow",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "escarificación"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "the process of breaking up earth with a harrow",
      "word": "sakalmot"
    }
  ],
  "word": "harrowing"
}

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