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Gruelling   Listen
adjective
gruelling, grueling  adj.  
1.
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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"Gruelling" Quotes from Famous Books



... 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



Words linked to "Gruelling" :   hard, laborious, toilsome, grueling, punishing, heavy, arduous, operose



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