Crossword clues for grueling
grueling
The Collaborative International Dictionary
grueling \grueling\, gruelling \gruelling\adj. 1. characterized by toilsome effort; requiring extreme physical or mental effort; as, a grueling campaign.
Syn: arduous, backbreaking, back-breaking, exhausting, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, labourious, punishing, slavish, strenuous, toilsome.
Wiktionary
a. (alternative spelling of gruelling English)
WordNet
adj. characterized by toilsome 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, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, punishing, toilsome]
Usage examples of "grueling".
Orrin Grueling rode his jaded, mud-splattered horse into Temple Square.
The presence of the mount told Grueling that the president had a visitor.
It would be very dangerous to an enemy if Orrin Grueling were to fight.
There was a very remote valley in the southern part of the Arizona Territory where he would send Grueling and his wives.
The banishment of Grueling would be a severe punishment on the man and the members of his family.
Flanking that structure on the left were the armory, a blacksmith, and several other wooden buildings that Grueling did not know the purpose of.
PARKER Grueling jabbed his finger at the three women, one after the other.
She jabbed her finger at Grueling as he had jabbed his finger at her friends.
He tried to stand erect, but the grueling trip had taken too much out of him.
Then the needle withdrew, leaving behind an all-too-familiar burning sensation, and the grueling interrogation resumed.
She had dreaded the thought of leaving this pleasant valley and facing more grueling days of traveling the parched windy steppes, dreaded the thought of traveling any more at all.
President was working grueling eighteen-hour days trying to save the Great Deal.
At my urging, he spent the last week of August at the Summer White House on Monhegan Island, refreshing himself for the grueling ordeal that lay ahead.
Although the grueling trip on muleback to Vera Cruz had almost finished him off, he was recovering now.
Shinonn could only wonder how long they could all hold out under the grueling strain, but like the others, she rarely spoke her thoughts.