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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

adjective see grueling

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. & n. (US grueling) --adj. extremely demanding, severe, or tiring. --n. a harsh or exhausting experience; punishment. Derivatives: gruellingly adv. Etymology: GRUEL as verb, = exhaust, punish

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Note: in AM, use 'grueling' A gruelling activity is extremely difficult and tiring to do. He had complained of exhaustion after his gruelling schedule over the past week... This flight was more gruelling than I had expected. = exhausting ADJ