Synonym: arduous, backbreaking, grueling, hard, heavy, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome. Similar words: grueling, yelling, dwelling, compelling, best-selling, milling, willing, rolling. Meaning: ['gruːəlɪŋ] 
adj. characterized by toilsome effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort.
adj. characterized by toilsome effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort. 
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1 He had complained of exhaustion after his gruelling schedule over the past week.
2 Junior doctors often have to work a gruelling 100-hour week.
3 He eventually won the match after five gruelling sets.
4 I've had a gruelling day.
5 The cast took a break from their gruelling schedule.
6 This flight was more gruelling than I had expected.
7 After the gruelling test, he felt totally spent.
8 After a gruelling six months singing on a world tour, it is hardly surprising that her voice is starting to go.
9 Mr Stocks can expect a gruelling week on the publicity treadmill.
10 The recruits were put through a week of gruelling endurance tests.
11 Middlesbrough face a gruelling ten-match programme in April.
12 And, a week after her gruelling ordeal, she was allowed home.
13 This was an understandable reaction to the gruelling nature of the work.
14 The next morning they began their gruelling journey up the ancient Roman road which ran from London's city wall into Oxfordshire.
15 In his gruelling work schedule, sixty-year old Garrett continues at a rate that would tax many men half his age.
16 McAllister should be on his knees after a gruelling month at Elland Road.
17 The competiton was as fierce and as gruelling as ever.
18 A gruelling test of endurance not only at the competition ... but also a test of endurance to get there.
19 Events include Hang Tough - a gruelling game of aerial chess - and Atlaspheres,(www.Sentencedict.com) a battle fought in giant globes.
20 The gruelling fight with Johnny Love was also the beginning of the end for Jimmy's fighting career.
21 Hundreds of refugees were herded into cattle trucks for the gruelling ten-hour journey.
22 At twenty, in Budapest, he suffered a complete nervous breakdown, which he conquered through a gruelling program of callisthenics.
23 What are the benefits of hypnotherapy and is aromatherapy a way of totally relaxing after your gruelling experience?
24 The Le Mans 24 hour race is the most gruelling event in the motor-racing calendar.
25 Middlesbrough manager Lennie Lawrence has to prepare his players for a final push after a gruelling season.
26 Thereafter she toured the world with formidable endurance under often gruelling conditions of travel, climate, and work.
27 For once we had definite news that things were looking up, and it was the perfect antidote to the gruelling journey.
28 Armstrong recovered from testicular cancer to compete in one of sport's most gruelling tests a year later.
29 Meanwhile the Emperor ordered that Aurangzeb should remain - unrewarded - on gruelling campaign against the empire's enemies in the Deccan.
30 A chance for a last flourish and a bit of fun at the end of a gruelling league campaign.
More similar words: grueling, yelling, dwelling, compelling, best-selling, milling, willing, rolling, appalling, willingly, fulfilling, feel like doing, willingness, polling place, cruel, cruelty, gruesome, quell, cruel and unusual punishment, call in, feel like, mudslinging, fill in, roll in, all in all, pull in, lingering, embellish, satellite, bellicose.