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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
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" [syn: arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome]

Merriam Webster's

or gruelling adjective Etymology: from present participle of obsolete gruel to exhaust, punish, from gruel, noun Date: 1852 trying or taxing to the point of exhaustion ; punishing <a grueling race> • gruelingly adverb

Moby Thesaurus

Herculean, annoying, arduous, backbreaking, besetting, bothersome, burdensome, castigatory, chastening, chastising, corrective, crushing, devitalizing, disciplinary, draining, effortful, enervating, enfeebling, exhausting, fatiguesome, fatiguing, forced, hard-earned, hard-fought, heavy, hefty, inflictive, irksome, killing, labored, laborious, onerous, operose, oppressive, painful, penal, penological, plaguey, punishing, punitive, punitory, retributive, sapping, strained, straining, strenuous, stressful, tiresome, tiring, toilsome, tough, troublesome, trying, uphill, vexatious, weakening, weariful, wearing, wearisome, wearying