grueling
Use Grueling in a sentence
ə adjective
1.
exhausting; very tiring; arduously severe: the grueling Boston marathon.
noun
2.
any trying or exhausting procedure or experience.
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gruelling or (US) grueling (ˈɡruːəlɪŋ) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —adj | |
| 1. | severe or tiring: a gruelling interview |
| —n | |
| 2. | informal a severe experience, esp punishment |
| [C19: from now obsolete vb gruel to exhaust, punish] | |
| grueling or (US) grueling | |
| —adj | |
| —n | |
| [C19: from now obsolete vb gruel to exhaust, punish] | |
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Grueling
is always a great word to know.
So is ninnyhammer. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
Example sentences
She put together photos of sweatshop workers and interspersed them with facts and figures about the grueling conditions.
Together, in between grueling shifts, they broke fast and prayed for the mud to hold.
The grueling schedule that many doctors go through to train as specialists is about to ease.
It's also a grueling test of the endurance of the drivers.
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