grueling English

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grueling Adjective

— Something that is grueling is very tiring and difficult. It took five grueling hours to finish running the marathon.

grueling

— adjective (= arduous, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, punishing) characterized by 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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gruelling

toilsome

tiring

punishing

operose

laborious

heavy

hard

exhausting

backbreaking

arduous

wearying

wearisome

wearing

strenuous

ponderous

killing

herculean

exhaustive

excruciating

draining

agonizing

agonising

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Tired

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  tiring exhausting wearing boring draining grueling taxing tedious wearisome wearying