GRUELLING


Meaning of GRUELLING in English

gru ‧ el ‧ ling BrE AmE British English , grueling American English /ˈɡruː ə lɪŋ/ adjective

[ Date: 1800-1900 ; Origin: gruel 'to punish' (1800-1900) , from gruel 'food' ; because people were given gruel as a punishment ]

very difficult and tiring:

The cast took a break from their gruelling schedule.

a grueling journey

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THESAURUS

▪ tiring making you feel that you want to sleep or rest:

The journey was really tiring.

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I’ve had such a tiring day.

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It was tiring work.

▪ exhausting extremely tiring:

I had to drive nine hours without a break – it was exhausting.

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an exhausting week of singing, acting, and dancing

▪ hard very tiring and difficult – used about days, journeys etc:

a hard day at work

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The last part of the journey was very hard.

▪ wearing /ˈweərɪŋ $ ˈwer-/ tiring because you have to use a lot of your mental energy, and often become bored – used about people, situations etc:

I find her constant questions rather wearing.

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Kids of that age can be very wearing.

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His films always tend to have the same plots, which does get rather wearing after a while.

▪ gruelling British English , grueling American English ( also punishing ) very tiring physically or mentally – used when you have to keep doing something for a long time:

a gruelling journey across the desert

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a gruelling race

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a punishing schedule

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a punishing exercise regime

▪ backbreaking backbreaking work is extremely tiring and needs a lot of physical effort:

Clearing the land was slow backbreaking work.

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Laborers were paid $2 a day for backbreaking farm work.

▪ something is a killer informal used when saying that something is extremely tiring:

Today was a real killer.

▪ fatiguing formal making you feel very tired:

Factory work was repetitive and fatiguing.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English.      Longman - Словарь современного английского языка.