Gruelling

Definition: Gruelling

Gruelling

Adjective

1. 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".

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Date "gruelling" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1900. (references)

Synonyms: Gruelling

Crosswords: Gruelling

Albanian

torturues (excruciating, tormentor, torturer). (various references)

Bulgarian 

мъчителен (afflictive, agonizing, awkward, cruel, exasperating, excruciating, grievous, grinding, harassing, harrowing, heavy, nerve racking, painful, sticky, tantalizing, torturous, traumatic, trying, vexatious), жестоко отнасяне. (various references)

Czech

vysilující (debilitating), vyèerpávající (backbreaking, enervating, exhaustible, exhausting, exhaustive, grueling, killing, nerve racking), namáhavý (arduous, hard, labor intensive, laborious, labour intensive, painful, strenuous, toilsome, troublesome, trying, wearing), úmorný (killing, overpowering, plodding, scorching). (various references)

German

zermürbend (mellowing, trying, unnerving, wearing), mörderisches. (various references)

Greek 

κουραστικόσ (strenuous, tiresome, tiring, trying, wearing), σκληρός (cruel, grim, hard, harsh, rough, tough), εξαντλητικός. (various references)

Hebrew 

מי�'ע (grueling, illsome, laborious, tiresome, toilsome, uphill, wearisome), מתיש (exhausting, grueling, wasting). (various references)

Hungarian

fárasztó (against the collar, burdensome, difficult, exhausting, fatiguing, grinding, grueling, irking, irksome, onerous, pain in the neck, stiff, sweaty, tedious, tiresome, tiring, toilful, toilsome, trying, uphill, warm, weariful, wearing, wearisome), döglesztő (grueling). (various references)

Italian

faticoso (arduous, arduously, difficult, grindingly, grueling, hard, killing, labored, laborious, laboured, stiff, strenuous, tiresome, tiring, toilsome, uphill, wearisome), estenuante (exhausting, wearing), duro (adamant, bitter, dull, flinty, grueling, hard, hard part, hard-hearted, harsh, rough, rugged, severe, sharp, something hard, steely, stiff, swingeing, testing, tight, tough, trying). (various references)

Manx

trome (bold, burdensome, close, close oppressive, crippling, crippling burden, deep, deep-drawn, dense, dense of smoke, difficult, emphatic, expectant, expecting, grave, grievous, hard, harsh, heavy, heavyweight, high pressure, intense, laborious, onerous, ponderous, pregnant, rough of sea, severe, sledge-hammer, steep, stodgy, substantial, sweated, wearying, weighty, with child). (various references)

Pig Latin

uellinggray.(various references)

Portuguese

sova (birching, drubbing, dusting, grueling, hiding, lacing, licking, paddywhack, thrashing, towelling, walloping, warming, whaling), situa��o dif�cil (grueling, impasse), severo (austere, bad, bitter, blue, censorious, close, closet, cornered, dour, grim, grueling, hard, hard-faced, hard-grained, harsh, inclement, iron-bound, joggly, keen, pointed, relentless, rigid, rigorous, rough, rugged, scathing, severe, smart, squint-eyed, stern, stiff, strait, straitlaced, strict, stringent), fatigante (grueling, laborious, sweaty, tiresome, tiring, trying, wearing), esgotante (exhausting, grueling, wearing), duro (adamant, callous, cornered, crapy, crusty, die-hard, flinty, grueling, gruff, hard, hard-boiled, hard-up, heartless, iron, iron-bound, jarring, marble, non-ductile, racking, rocky, rough, rugged, set, severe, shrewd, sinewy, solid, stand-up, stern, stiff, toilsome, tough, unfeeling, unkind, unrelenting, unyielding, wiry), dif�cil (grave, grueling, hard, heavy, hidebound), castigo (avengement, birching, castigation, chastisement, discipline, flogging, grueling, pain, payment, penalty, punishment, retribution, sanction). (various references)

Romanian

istovitor (backbreaking, consumptive, exhausting, exhaustive, fagging, killing, tiresome), aspru (abrupt, abruptly, acid, acrimonious, biting, brisk, callous, clumsy, coarse, crisp, dour, drastic, earthy, edgy, exacting, firm, grating, gruff, hard, harsh, hoarse, homespun, husky, ill, inclement, iron, iron-fisted, keen, lashing, nippy, obdurate, punitive, rasping, rigid, rigidly, rigorous, robust, rough, rugged, scabrous, severe, severely, shaggy, shy, smart, snappish, stern, stiff, Strait, strict, strong, stubborn, tough, unkind, violent, wiry). (various references)

Russian 

изнурительный (all out, back-breaking, exhausting, fatiguing, grueling, tiring, wasting, wearisome). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

naporan (drudgery, grueling, heavy, labored, laboured, strenuous, tiring, toilful, toilsome, trying). (various references)

Spanish

riguroso (arduous, chuffy, coriaceous, deep, didactic, grueling, hard boiled, inclement, inflexible, rigorous, severe, strict, stringent, tight, unkind), rigurosidad (grueling), reñido (at variance, grueling, hard-fought), penoso,duro, no flexible (grueling), agotador (exhauster, exhausting, fatiguing, grueling, gruesome, hard, killing, punishing, strenuous, taxing). (various references)

Swedish

svår pärs (grueling), stryk (beating, gruel, jacketing, licking, pasting, punishment, thrashing, walloping), straff (chastisement, grueling, infliction, judgement, judgment, pain, penalty, penalty kick, punishment), sträng (astringent, austere, chaste, chord, dour, grueling, hard, harsh, inclement, intemperate, rigorous, severe, strict, string, swath, unbending, wire), mycket krävande, hård (adamant, austere, backbreaking, concrete, grim, grueling, gruff, hard, harsh, inclement, intemperate, ironbound, keen, obdurate, robust, severe, stern, tenacious, tight, tough, unkind), ansträngning (effort, endeavor, endeavour, exertion, fatigue, grueling, labor, labour), ansträngande (exhausting, grueling, hard, strenuous, trying). (various references)

Thai

เหนื่อยมาก (buggered, bushed, fagged), ทำให้เหนื่อย (drain, tire). (various references)

Turkish

zorluk (adversity, arduousness, complexity, complication, difficulty, entanglement, gaff, grueling, hardness, hardship, hassle, hobble, rigor, rigour, rough, strain, stumbling block, tightness, toughness), zahmetli (demanding, drudging, exacting, exhausting, exhaustive, fatiguing, grueling, incommodious, inconvenient, labored, laboring, laborious, laboured, labouring, lucubratory, onerous, painful, toilful, toilsome, troublesome, troublous, trying, uphill, with an effort), zahmet (bother, exertion, grueling, inconvenience, onerousness, pain, pains, painstaking, punishment, struggle, toil, travail, trouble), yorucu şey (grueling), yorucu (back breaking, drudging, exhausting, exhaustive, fatiguing, grueling, irksome, labored, laboring, laborious, laboured, labouring, languorous, painful, strenuous, tiresome, tiring, toilful, toilsome, trying, wearing, wearisome, weary, with an effort), sıkıntılı (annoying, constrained, cornered, dismal, distressed, dreary, Gray, grey, grueling, troubled, troublesome, troublous, uneasy, unrestful, weighty), meşakkat (difficulty, grueling, trouble), işkenceli (agonizing, grueling), işkence (corporal punishment, cruelty, gaff, grueling, persecution, torment, torture), eziyetli (excruciating, grueling, painful, tiring, vexatious, vexing), ağır iş (drudge, drudgery, hard work, moil, plodding, slavery, taskwork). (various references)

Ukrainian

суворий (arctic, astringent, austere, censorious, dour, grueling, hard, hard-faced, inclement, iron, rigid, rigorous, severe, stern, straitlaced, stringent, surly), тяжке покарання (grueling), виснажливий (all out, back breaking, exhaustive, grueling, killing, tiring, wasteful, wasting, wearisome). (various references)

Vietnamese 

trận đòn nhừ tử, l� m mệt nho� i, l� m mệt lử (exhausting). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "gruelling": gruellings. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: grueling, regluing.

-2 letters: gelling, glueing, gulling, lugeing, niggler.

-3 letters: giller, ginger, gluier, gluing, grille, grunge, gurgle, leggin, ligule, ligure, linger, lugger, luggie, luging, lunger, lunier, luring, niggle, reguli, ruling, uglier, urging.

-4 letters: gigue, gluer, grill, gruel, guile, gurge, iller, ingle, inure, liger, liner, luger, lunge, lungi, reign, renig, rille, ruing, unrig, urine.

-5 letters: genu, gien.

+1 letter: gruelingly, gruellings.