harrowing

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil present participle and gerund of harrow.
2. sıfat Causing pain or distress; harrying.

   “Harrowing journeys down the dark roads of anger, violence, and madness”

3. isim The process of breaking up earth with a harrow.

   “The field received two harrowings.”

4. isim Suffering, torment.
5. isim Ravaging; hostile incursion; spoliation; intentional widespread destruction.

   “Scientists who complain about the helplessness of politicians might consider the desolation in England which followed the harrowing of the north by William the Conqueror or the state of the Palatinate long after the end of the Thirty Years War[.]”

6. isim 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.

   “As in other myths, like Christ's harrowing of hell, the initiate descends into the netherworld for the magical three days.”