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gruelling adjective [ ˈɡrʊəlɪŋ ]

• extremely tiring and demanding.
• "a gruelling schedule"
Similar: exhausting, tiring, fatiguing, wearying, enervating, taxing, draining, sapping, debilitating, demanding, exacting, trying, difficult, hard, arduous, laborious, back-breaking, strenuous, harsh, severe, stiff, punishing, crushing, crippling, grinding, brutal, relentless, unsparing, killing, murderous, hellish, knackering, exigent,
Origin: mid 19th century: from the verb gruel ‘exhaust, punish’, from an old phrase get one's gruel ‘receive one's punishment’.


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