See harrowing on Wiktionary
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"word": "使人痛苦的"
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"code": "he",
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"word": "מייסר"
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"code": "hu",
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"sense": "causing pain or distress",
"word": "szívszaggató"
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"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "causing pain or distress",
"word": "léanmhar"
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"code": "ga",
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"sense": "causing pain or distress",
"word": "coscrach"
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"code": "it",
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"word": "straziante"
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"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "causing pain or distress",
"word": "opprivende"
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"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "causing pain or distress",
"word": "udręczony"
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"sense": "causing pain or distress",
"word": "hemsk"
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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.",
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"ref": "1986, Jeffrey Burton Russell, Lucifer: The Devil in the Middle Ages, →ISBN, 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.",
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"ref": "2002, Michael W. Herren, Shirley Ann Brown, Christ in Celtic Christianity: Britain and Ireland from the Fifth to the Tenth Century, →ISBN, page 157:",
"text": "The motif of the harrowing of hell was highly influential in the Insular world.",
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"ref": "2013, Robert E. Bjork, The Cynewulf Reader, →ISBN, 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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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "the process of breaking up earth with a harrow",
"word": "äestys"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "the process of breaking up earth with a harrow",
"word": "äestäminen"
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "the process of breaking up earth with a harrow",
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"word": "Eggen"
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "the process of breaking up earth with a harrow",
"word": "boronálás"
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"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "the process of breaking up earth with a harrow",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "erpicatura"
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"code": "la",
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"sense": "the process of breaking up earth with a harrow",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "occātiō"
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"code": "ru",
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"roman": "boronovánije",
"sense": "the process of breaking up earth with a harrow",
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"word": "боронова́ние"
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"sense": "the process of breaking up earth with a harrow",
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"word": "рыхле́ние"
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"code": "ru",
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"sense": "the process of breaking up earth with a harrow",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "культива́ция"
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"code": "es",
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"sense": "the process of breaking up earth with a harrow",
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"word": "escarificación"
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"code": "tl",
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"sense": "the process of breaking up earth with a harrow",
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