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adjective

gruelling, grueling adj.

Characterized by toilsome effort; requiring extreme physical or mental effort; as, a grueling campaign.

Synonyms: arduous, backbreaking, back-breaking, exhausting, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, labourious, punishing, slavish, strenuous, toilsome.

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Etymology of 'Gruelling'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Gruelling" Quotes from Famous Books

... "Brothers," tells the story of Mark Samphire's tragedy. "When, after three years of most gruelling, hard work as an art student, he turned to his great master and asked: 'When you were here last you said to a friend of mine that it was fortunate for me that I had independent means. You are my master; you have seen everything I have done. Pynsent ...

— Analyzing Character • Katherine M. H. Blackford and Arthur Newcomb

... Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, in morning and afternoon heats of three hours each, dogs were run in braces on the plantation of Steve Earle, who was, like his father before him, one of the judges. Gruelling heats they were that tested every nerve and fibre, run under the eyes of ...

— Frank of Freedom Hill • Samuel A. Derieux

... the public something better and finer. Still, he was puzzled at her believing he might need to be looked out for. An actor drawing forty dollars a week could surely look out for himself. He emerged into the open of the Holden lot as one who had at last achieved success after long and gruelling privation. He walked briefly among the scenes of this privation, pausing in reminiscent mood before the Crystal Palace Hotel and other outstanding spots where he had so stoically suffered the ...

— Merton of the Movies • Harry Leon Wilson