Word relationships
Synonyms
arduous, backbreaking, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome
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Local English word record
grueling
characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort
Practice this wordExamples
- worked their arduous way up the mining valley
- a grueling campaign
- hard labor
- heavy work
- heavy going
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This page uses the locally materialized K5English vocabulary cohort. WordNet, where present, is enrichment only and does not determine K-5 admission.