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gut-wrenching

[ guht-ren-ching ]

adjective

  1. involving great distress or anguish; agonizing:

    a gut-wrenching decision.



gut-wrenching

adjective

  1. informal.
    causing great distress or suffering

    gut-wrenching scenes

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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The "gut-wrenching" flashes of wondering what her mother's last moments were.

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The Dad Shift's co-founder, George Gabriel, said the stories he hears are often "absolutely gut-wrenching".

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As the gut-wrenching events played out, Le Scouarnec sat in his box – mostly reactionless, but at times noticeably agitated, his voice cracking as he asked his sons for forgiveness.

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And what a night it was on Tyneside as Newcastle's supporters started in a state of gut-wrenching tension, but then ended high on emotion and elation after reaching Wembley once more.

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"We could have had that chance to get back in contact with him but the fact that someone's taken that chance away - for us to ever be able to reconnect with him I think that was quite gut-wrenching."

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