dictionary definitions for "gruelling"


From WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) [wn]:

  gruelling
      adj : characterized by toilsome 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"
             [syn: arduous, backbreaking, grueling, hard,
            heavy, laborious, punishing, toilsome]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  grueling \grueling\, gruelling \gruelling\adj.
     1. characterized by toilsome effort; requiring extreme
        physical or mental effort; as, a grueling campaign.
  
     Syn: arduous, backbreaking, back-breaking, exhausting,
          gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, labourious,
          punishing, slavish, strenuous, toilsome.
          [WordNet 1.5]


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