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gruelling Definition


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gruelling
grueling
adj
    1. Exhausting; punishing.
      Thesaurus: arduous, severe, hard, punishing, grinding, demanding, taxing, trying, wearying, backbreaking, laborious, strenuous, uphill; Antonym: easy.
Etymology: 19c: from gruel in old sense ‘to punish'.



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