grueling Meaning, Definition & Usage
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adjective satellite characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort
heavy; toilsome; punishing; operose; backbreaking; hard; arduous; gruelling; laborious.
- 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