3 definitions found 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] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: grueling 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}, {gruelling}, {hard}, {heavy}, {laborious}, {punishing}, {toilsome}] From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]: 60 Moby Thesaurus words for "grueling": Herculean, annoying, arduous, backbreaking, besetting, bothersome, burdensome, castigatory, chastening, chastising, corrective, crushing, devitalizing, disciplinary, draining, effortful, enervating, enfeebling, exhausting, fatiguesome, fatiguing, forced, hard-earned, hard-fought, heavy, hefty, inflictive, irksome, killing, labored, laborious, onerous, operose, oppressive, painful, penal, penological, plaguey, punishing, punitive, punitory, retributive, sapping, strained, straining, strenuous, stressful, tiresome, tiring, toilsome, tough, troublesome, trying, uphill, vexatious, weakening, weariful, wearing, wearisome, wearying
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