gruelling
Meanings
Plural: gruellings
Adjective Satellite
- characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort
Adj
- Very difficult or taxing; exhausting; backbreaking.
Noun
- A race in which the animal being raced finishes in a state of physical exhaustion.
- A gruelling ordeal.
Verb
- present participle and gerund of gruel
Origin / Etymology
From present particle of gruel (“to exhaust, punish”), from gruel (noun).
Synonyms
arduous, backbreaking, exhausting, grueling, hard, heavy, laborious, operose, punishing, taxing, toilsome
Scrabble Score: 11
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