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harrowing

English

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /?hæ???i?/

Verb

harrowing

  1. present participle of harrow

Adjective

harrowing (comparative more harrowing, superlative most harrowing)

  1. Causing pain or distress.
    • 2006, Paul Chadwick, Concrete: Killer Smile, Dark Horse Books, cover text
      Harrowing journeys down the dark roads of anger, violence, and madness

Translations

Noun

harrowing (plural harrowings)

  1. The process of breaking up earth with a harrow.
    The field received two harrowings.
  2. Suffering, torment.
  3. Christ's triumphal descent into Hell.

Translations

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odious

English

Etymology

From Middle English odious, from Old French odieus, from Latin odi?sus, from odium (hate).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /???.di.?s/
  • (US) IPA(key): /?o?.di.?s/
  • Rhymes: -??di?s

Adjective

odious (comparative more odious, superlative most odious)

  1. Arousing or meriting strong dislike, aversion, or intense displeasure.
    Scrubbing the toilet is an odious task.

Usage notes

  • Nouns to which "odious" is often applied: debt, man, character, crime, task, comparison, woman, person, vice, word, act.

Synonyms

  • detestable, hated, reviled, unsavory, contemptible, despicable

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Anagrams

  • iodous

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