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Harrowing vs Revolting - What's the difference?

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Harrowing is a related term of revolting.


As verbs the difference between harrowing and revolting

is that harrowing is while revolting is .

As adjectives the difference between harrowing and revolting

is that harrowing is causing pain or distress while revolting is which revolts or is repelling.

As nouns the difference between harrowing and revolting

is that harrowing is the process of breaking up earth with a harrow while revolting is the action of the verb to revolt .

harrowing

English

Verb

(head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Causing pain or distress.
  • * 2006 , , Concrete: Killer Smile , Dark Horse Books, cover text
    • Harrowing journeys down the dark roads of anger, violence, and madness
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-01
    • , author=Brian Hayes , title=Father of Fractals , volume=101, issue=1, page=62 , magazine= citation , passage=Toward the end of the war, Benoit was sent off on his own with forged papers; he wound up working as a horse groom at a chalet in the Loire valley. Mandelbrot describes this harrowing youth with great sangfroid.}}

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The process of breaking up earth with a harrow.
    • The field received two harrowings .

    revolting

    English

    Verb

    (head)
    • The peasants are revolting !

    Noun

  • The action of the verb to revolt .
  • * 1837 , The American Biblical Repository (volume 9, page 316)
    • Yet revoltings of the soul would attend this violence to nature, this abuse of physical and intellectual energy, while the beauty of social order would be defaced, and the fountains of earth's felicity broken up.

    Adjective

    (head)
  • Which revolts or is repelling.
    • The most revolting smell was coming from the drains.