gruelling English

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gruelling Adjective

— Something that is gruelling is very tiring and difficult. The climb lasted a gruelling twenty minutes.

gruelling

— adjective (= arduous, grueling, 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 English » English

exhausting

tiring

grueling

arduous

toilsome

punishing

laborious

heavy

backbreaking

wearisome

tiresome

strenuous

operose

hard

wearing

wasting

vexing

trying

tireful

straining

painstaking

painful

onerous

laboursome

labourious

fatiguing

excruciating

cumbersome

agonizing

agonising