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  1. racking, wrenchingadjective

    causing great physical or mental suffering

    "a wrenching pain"

    Synonyms:
    racking

    Antonyms:
    painless

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  1. Louis Head:

    Something came over me as I watched and listened to my wife, the mother of Michael Brown, Jr., react to the gut-wrenching news that the cop who killed her son wouldn't be charged with a crime.

  2. Paul Hynek:

    If I dream about it, and they’re overrun by Russia, obviously it’s going to be very sad. It would be like losing a child and that will just be gut-wrenching pain.

  3. Bryan Riley:

    What makes it so gut-wrenching is that these innocent people died and they were randomly picked out. This wasn’t a fight that went bad, this wasn’t a disturbance that escalated, when you see a 3-month-old, little, beautiful baby boy deceased in the arms of his mother, where she’s trying to protect him, and she’s murdered, he’s murdered, and his daddy’s murdered — that’s pretty rough.

  4. Nathaniel David:

    Our hearts are broken, they're broken. There is nothing tougher than to stand before a family and explain how a loved one was murdered, it was gut wrenching, words really can't describe what they're going through.

  5. Ryan Reynolds:

    It was really shocking and sad. Obviously, he was sick and it wasn't totally, wildly unexpected, it's still heartbreaking nonetheless. It's absolutely gut-wrenching.


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