gut-wrenching
15
7.4
- adjective
- /ˈɡʌtˌrɛnʧɪŋ/
:
desgarrador
- Once I'd recovered from my gut-wrenching experience, Kevin asked me another question.
- gut-wrenching experience
- gut-wrenching screams
- gut-wrenching agony
And making this change from music to life coaching was was gut wrenching.
- And making this change from music to life coaching was was gut wrenching.
- I mean, that had to be fucking gut wrenching to.
- It's, it's, it's gut wrenching, not only facing the widows and girlfriends of these officers.
Examples
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In his fascinating autobiography Wordsmith, Smith writes with gut-wrenching honesty about how he overcame self-destruction.
Blog text (9) -
And that led to one of the most gut wrenching and difficult conversations I've ever been a part of.
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And it is completely gut wrenching and brilliant and incredible and honest and important.
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And, as an example of gut-wrenching hard choices, watch "Year of Hell" the episodes.
Blog text (17) -
Oh, my God, my next guest just wrote a gut wrenching account of what's happening on the ground in Ukraine.
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Of making the film, she says, "There were some gut-wrenching moments... but the result is some of our most spectacular footage."
Academic text (2003) -
As I wrote above, this is a painful, sorrowful, and gut-wrenching experience.
Blog text (14) -
Your story was compelling, at times humorous, and at others gut-wrenching (the sermon excerpt was especially poignant).
Blog text (3) -
The decision to place her mother in assisted living had been gut-wrenching, but Beckett knew it was time.
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Grief, Agent Nielson, real, gut-wrenching grief, is not something you can power through or ignore.
Synonyms
737
1.0
Making someone feel physical hurt or strong emotional upset
92
3.7
Causing someone to feel very sad and upset
46
7.9
Causing very strong physical or mental pain
36
4.6
Causing strong worry and emotional pain
27
8.2
Causing very strong fear or sadness
18
6.1
Causes a lot of worry and stress
17
3.5
To make someone feel very sad and often cry
9
7.5
Causing very strong emotional or physical pain
7
5.9
Causing very strong physical or emotional pain
2
7.8
Causes people to feel very sad
Antonyms
How Distressing
27
8.2
15
7.4
- Specialized
36
4.6
81
2.5
64
4.2
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word gut-wrenching puts gut ('belly') and wrench ('to twist') together, so imagine your belly being twisted hard; that's why something gut-wrenching feels very upsetting and painfully emotional inside.