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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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Gruelling" Quotes from Famous Books

... Leonard had taken great pains to inform them that the successful long-distance runners always take things moderately easy in the beginning of a race, preserving as much vigor as possible for the gruelling finish. The chief idea was to keep just behind the pace-maker, and be ready to rush to the front when on the home-stretch. The fellow best able to preserve his full powers for that last half-mile dash would be the one to carry off ...

— The Chums of Scranton High on the Cinder Path • Donald Ferguson

... good judgment when you make it," laughed Jack, "and see that the bases are occupied. We may need a homer before this gruelling ...

— Jack Winters' Baseball Team - Or, The Rivals of the Diamond • Mark Overton

... and Wednesday, in morning and afternoon heats of three hours each, dogs were run in braces on the plantation of Steve Earle, who was, like his father before him, one of the judges. Gruelling heats they were that tested every nerve and fibre, run under the eyes of judges ...

— Frank of Freedom Hill • Samuel A. Derieux

... Now the grueling job of installing the Quakelizor began. First the cave was cleared of debris, bats, and other small living creatures. Then a site was marked out on the cave floor. Tom had brought along a midget model of his great atomic earth blaster, which he had invented to drill ...

— Tom Swift and The Visitor from Planet X • Victor Appleton

... prepared for that; but he had not pictured, even to himself, half of the maddening setbacks which occurred time after time because of the crudity of the tools and equipment he was forced to use. All too often a machine or part, the product of many hours of grueling labor, would fail because of the lack of some insignificant thing—some item so common as to be taken for granted in all terrestrial shops, but impossible of fabrication with the means at his disposal. At such times ...

— Spacehounds of IPC • Edward Elmer Smith

Words linked to "Gruelling" : toilsome, arduous, effortful, laborious, heavy, backbreaking