adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
traumatic/harrowing (= one that is shocking and upsetting, and affects you for a long time )
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Having an operation can be a traumatic experience for a child.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
experience
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No, Mr Holman, don't let your harrowing experience this morning send you into the realms of fantasy.
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Whether I'd stuck to my guns or not, it had been a harrowing experience and I felt abused.
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Reporting a rape remains a strenuous and harrowing experience , however, and it is likely to continue as an underreported offence.
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You've had a harrowing experience and a lucky escape.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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After a harrowing bus ride through the mountains, we arrived at the port of Heraklion.
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The book is a harrowing account of his stepfather's abuse.
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The film contained harrowing scenes of starving children.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After many hair-raising adventures, most not only survive but emerge wiser and stronger as a result of their harrowing ordeal.
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But 19-year-old model Saffron Domini needed little persuasion to appear in a harrowing film about racism and violence.
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Despite critical letters from their families and harrowing interviews with different social workers, they remain resolute.
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He was reliving the harrowing moment when he discovered her unconscious, her neck in a ligature.
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His other abiding memory is a harrowing one.
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No, Mr Holman, don't let your harrowing experience this morning send you into the realms of fantasy.
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The case made harrowing reading, but far worse was the account of how passers-by behaved.
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Whether I'd stuck to my guns or not, it had been a harrowing experience and I felt abused.