Meaning of GRUELING
| Pronunciation: | | 'groouling
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| | Definition: | | [adj] characterized by toilsome effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort; "worked their arduous way up the mining valley"; "a grueling campaign"; "hard labor"; "heavy work"; "heavy going"; "spent many laborious hours on the project"; "set a punishing pace" |
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| | Synonyms: | | arduous, backbreaking, effortful, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, labourious, punishing, toilsome |
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| | Related Terms: | | annoying, arduous, backbreaking, besetting, bothersome, burdensome, castigatory, chastening, chastising, corrective, crushing, devitalizing, disciplinary, draining, effortful, enervating, enfeebling, exhausting, fatiguesome, fatiguing, forced, hard-earned, hard-fought, heavy, hefty, Herculean, inflictive, irksome, killing, labored, laborious, onerous, operose, oppressive, painful, penal, penological, plaguey, punishing, punitive, punitory, retributive, sapping, strained, straining, strenuous, stressful, tiresome, tiring, toilsome, tough, troublesome, trying, uphill, vexatious, weakening, weariful, wearing, wearisome, wearying |
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