Meaning

2 senses
  1. (idiomatic)Sickening.

  2. (idiomatic)Difficult to tolerate.

Origin

From gut + wrenching.

From gut + wrenching.

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Forms

more gut-wrenching, most gut-wrenching

Word family

5 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

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