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- adjective So
difficult ortaxing as to make oneexhausted ;backbreaking .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort
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Examples
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Instead of giving their chapters proper titles, these worthy gentlemen simply slap a character’s name at the top of a fresh page, followed by his or her inmost thoughts and experiences in gruelling detail.
Quakers in Spain superversive 2006
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Like most top chefs, his lifestyle could already be described as gruelling, starting work at 7am and finishing at 11pm after dinner.
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Like most top chefs, his lifestyle could already be described as gruelling, starting work at 7am and finishing at 11pm after dinner.
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Like most top chefs, his lifestyle could already be described as gruelling, starting work at 7am and finishing at 11pm after dinner.
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Like most top chefs, his lifestyle could already be described as gruelling, starting work at 7am and finishing at 11pm after dinner.
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Like most top chefs, his lifestyle could already be described as gruelling, starting work at 7am and finishing at 11pm after dinner.
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Like most top chefs, his lifestyle could already be described as gruelling, starting work at 7am and finishing at 11pm after dinner.
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Multiple call-backs are rare and long "gruelling" auditions even rarer.
Loyalty Steve Hulett 2008
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From what I know of Ellroy's life, I can imagine that "gruelling" understates the case.
:Acquired Taste Tim Stretton 2007
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February 8, 1922, BOSTON HERALD: A "gruelling" examination, as the police employ the term, is one expected to put its recipient in the soup.
Hollywood scandal: The nation's newspapers respond - BatesLine 2005
GHibbs commented on the word gruelling
There is a noun 'gruelling' with the plural 'gruellings'. If the police interrogate someone intensely we may say that they gave him a 'gruelling'. If that happens more than once they are 'gruellings'.
June 5, 2012
bilby commented on the word gruelling
That noun is grilling.
June 6, 2012
bilby commented on the word gruelling
Although, I suppose, if you added some oatmeal to the waterboarding...
June 6, 2012