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  • verb Present participle of harsh.

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Examples

  • Relax man, if there's one thing I learned in my Womyn's Studies classes, stress leads to world harshing, which is what causes war.

    Think Progress 2009

  • Relax man, if there's one thing I learned in my Womyn's Studies classes, stress leads to world harshing, which is what causes war.

    Think Progress 2009

  • "harshing" - in which an interrogator puts his face close to the prisoner, screaming, swearing and making threats, is recommended as a means to provoke "anxiety/fear".

    The Guardian World News 2010

  • Harsh questioning ? or "harshing" ? in which an interrogator puts his face close to the prisoner, screaming, swearing and making threats, is recommended as a means to provoke "anxiety/fear".

    War crimes charges against military interrogators would put MoD on trial Ian Cobain 2010

  • The newspaper said the material advises that prisoners should be subject to harsh questioning, or "harshing", in which an interrogator puts his face close to the prisoner, screaming, swearing and making threats, to provoke anxiety or fear.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010

  • And the Grant parents are kind of harshing what was left of my mellow, no offense to S, Carrie, Dave or Neisha.

    Wacky Mommy WackyMommy 2010

  • The newspaper said the material advises that prisoners should be subject to harsh questioning, or "harshing", in which an interrogator puts his face close to the prisoner, screaming, swearing and making threats, to provoke anxiety or fear.

    Evening Standard - Home 2010

  • The newspaper said the material advises that prisoners should be subject to harsh questioning, or "harshing", in which an interrogator puts his face close to the prisoner, screaming, swearing and making threats, to provoke anxiety or fear.

    Evening Standard - Home 2010

  • Then all these other dudes started totally harshing my mellow and saying mean things about me.

    Mike O’Brien Talks About his Panhandling Flip-Flop « PubliCola 2010

  • I am not harshing on the actors, they could only do the best they could with the crap material they were given.

    AMC's The Prisoner reviewed. No spoilers, it was spoiled from the start. p_n_elrod 2009

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