gut-wrenching



Like this video? Subscribe to our free daily email and get a new idiom video every day!

gut-wrenching

Agonizing; extremely distressing, unpleasant, or emotionally disturbing; having a severe effect on one's feelings. What a gut-wrenching loss for the young athlete, who poured her heart and soul into this match. Kids today are so desensitized that images of violence their grandparents would have found gut-wrenching now barely even register a response.

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Caelius-Ancient Roman
Lilavati-Indian, Hindi (Rare)
WullemWUL-ləmLimburgish
Kavi-Indian, Hindi
Hamed-Arabic, Persian
Judith['dʒu:diθ]