gruelling 1
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Englishcharacterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort
Examples
- 1.heavy going
- 2.worked their arduous way up the mining valley
- 3.heavy work
- 4.spent many laborious hours on the project
- 5.hard labor
- 6.set a punishing pace
- 7.a grueling campaign
Synonyms
- arduous 1
characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort
- backbreaking 1
characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort
- grueling 1
characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort
- hard 5
characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort
- heavy 24
characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort
- laborious 1
characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort
- operose 1
characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort
- punishing 2
characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort
- toilsome 1
characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort
