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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

... on camping early; for it had been a gruelling afternoon on Garth. They chose a little promontory running into the water; and once he had started a fire, and put up her tent, she made him lie at length in the grass, where he stretched his limbs in delicious weariness, and watched her settling the camp for the night and cooking the supper. ...

— Two on the Trail - A Story of the Far Northwest • Hulbert Footner

... hearts went out in pity to them. They tottered rather than walked, their heads bowed as if in prayer, and their crosses of tools sinking them nearer to the ground. Seeing that they had walked twelve miles and had put in some eight hours gruelling work it was a marvel that the older members of the party had not fallen by the wayside. Yet, although footsore, weary, worn, and hungry they retained their characteristic composure. In silence they discussed their frugal evening meal ...

— Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons - Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben • Henry Charles Mahoney

... said, our first camp in England was Pond Farm. It was well named. Later we moved to Sling Plantation. However, it was at Pond Farm we had some of our most grueling experiences. Many a night, owing to the awful rains, we would have to move our tents sometimes in the middle of the night. If any minister of the gospel—except our chaplain—had been standing around on these occasions he might well have thought from the sulphurous perfume of the ...

— Private Peat • Harold R. Peat

Words linked to "Gruelling" : backbreaking, punishing, effortful, operose, arduous, heavy, hard