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wrenchingly
adverb
uk /ˈren.tʃɪŋ.li/ us /ˈren.tʃɪŋ.li/
in a way that makes you feel emotional pain:
The story wrenchingly captures the confusing experience of being a teenager in the throes of first love.
This series of paintings is astonishing, original, and wrenchingly beautiful.
The characters in her novels are always wrenchingly vulnerable.
The patch of land where the battle was fought is a key site in a wrenchingly sad story.
It was a wrenchingly difficult decision for the teacher to retire and leave the job she had loved for over 40 years.
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gnaw
haunt
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self-laceration
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shake someone out of something
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shake/rock something to its foundationsidiom
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See also
gut-wrenchingly heart-wrenchingly Related wordwrenching
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