gruelling

/'gruəliɳ/

Thân thiện

The hikers completed the gruelling climb to the mountain summit.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Extremely tiring and demanding: "Gruelling" describes an activity, task, or period of time that is very difficult, exhausting, and requires a great deal of effort or endurance.

Examples of Usage

• Adjective:
  • The marathon was a gruelling test of physical and mental strength.
  • She prepared for the exam through a gruelling schedule of study.
  • The rescue team faced a gruelling climb up the mountain.

Advanced Usage

• "a gruelling ordeal": an extremely difficult and painful experience.
  • Surviving in the wilderness for a week was a gruelling ordeal.
• "gruelling pace": a rate of work or activity that is exhausting to maintain.
  • The factory workers kept up a gruelling pace to meet the deadline.

Variants and Related Words

• Grueling (adj): The standard American English spelling of "gruelling".
  • The grueling training regimen left the athletes exhausted.
• Gruel (n): A thin porridge. (Note: This is a different word with a different meaning, but it is the root from which "gruelling" is derived, implying something that weakens or exhausts.)

Synonyms

• Arduous: Involving strenuous effort; difficult and tiring.
• Strenuous: Requiring or using great exertion.
• Punishing: Severely demanding; arduous.
• Taxing: Physically or mentally demanding.

Related Phrases

• Back-breaking: (adj) Requiring great physical effort.
  • Digging the trench was back-breaking work.
• An uphill battle/struggle: (idiom) A very difficult task requiring great effort.
  • Recovering from the injury was an uphill battle.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. characterized by 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