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Textual thesaurus for "gruelling"

(adj) heavy, grueling, hard, laborious, backbreaking, arduous, toilsome, operose, punishing

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