Synonyms for harrowing
har·row·ing

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1. agonizing, agonising, excruciating, harrowing, torturing, torturous, torturesomeadjective

   extremely painful

   Synonyms:
   torturing, excruciating, agonising, torturesome, torturous, agonizing

   Antonyms:
   painless

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1. List of paraphrases for "harrowing":

   heart-rending, poignant, distressing, painful, terrible, agonizing

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1. Stefan Worrall:

   In U.S. dollar terms, Japan is significantly underperforming versus the U.S. and some of that may have to do with the fact that it's the end of a financial year and the end of a financial quarter that has been particularly harrowing, so much money in Japan is institutional and for that reason institutional frames of mind prevail, which can cause things to slow down at certain times of year.

2. Jesse Watters:

   The footage coming in was just harrowing and emotional, so that was pretty powerful, it was a new experience and it clicked.

3. Ashli Babbitt:

   It is deeply offensive and sad that the brutal and harrowing memories of the worst terrorist attack in American history are being deployed by political partisans, they are using 9/11 not as an example of what the American people endured and overcame together, but explicitly to divide, to stoke hatred and to further a political agenda aimed at stigmatizing the other party and marginalizing ordinary Americans from participating in the political process. That is the real threat to democracy.

4. Ryan Reynolds:

   I think what a lot of people do n’t understand about the sport of football is how much anxiety it creates more than any other sport, that last 20 minutes was harrowing, it was amongst the greatest and worst 20 minutes of my entire life.

5. Toni Esquibel:

   There were probably about 10 shots. It was pretty harrowing. Pretty harrowing, not fun for young girls to have to go through that kind of experience.