Synonym: experience, test, trial, tribulation. Similar words: order, border, in order, deal, ideal, disorder, in order to, out of order. Meaning: [ɔr'dɪːl /ɔː'd-] 
n. 1. a severe or trying experience 2. a primitive method of determining a person's guilt or innocence by subjecting the accused person to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under divine control; escape was usually taken as a sign of innocence.
n. 1. a severe or trying experience 2. a primitive method of determining a person's guilt or innocence by subjecting the accused person to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under divine control; escape was usually taken as a sign of innocence. 
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61. He is famously reticent in talking about his extraordinary physical ordeal.
62. He was beginning to wonder if he would survive the ordeal.
63. It had been a terrifying ordeal, but now, at last, he was free.
64. And, a week after her gruelling ordeal, she was allowed home.
65. Keith Lodge, nine, suffered cuts and bruises to his leg after his ordeal in Darlington's Eastbourne park.
66. I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter. Winston Churchill 
67. Watching the golf was an ordeal which cramped the muscles and stretched the ingenuity of the masses to the limit.
68. But there is nothing like a shared ordeal to build cohesion, as armies and fraternities have long known.
69. However, the strain of her ordeal proved to have permanently undermined her health.
70. Something in the loneliness and fear he had experienced during his ordeal told him that he did.
71. Only a small percentage of the original 10, 000 minks survived the ordeal.
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72. With simple-to-follow, step-by-step instructions, Delia holds your hand through every stage of the ordeal.
73. Of course he understood, having been through the same gruesome ordeal.
74. But there were plenty of people around to help her see her daughter through the ordeal.
75. Read in studio A paperboy has been telling of his ordeal at the hands of a gunman.
76. Brian and I recounted the awful journey, but, of course, all the Yanks had been through the same ordeal.
77. The strain and anguish of his long ordeal has dearly had a terrible effect on him.
78. Her ongoing ordeal is hardly a picnic, but her fatalistic humor gets her through.
79. But flustered John's ordeal only ended when police went to investigate what was causing the two-mile tailback near Gateshead.
80. An even more agonizing ordeal for his troops was to position the howitzers and antiaircraft guns in the hills above Dienbienphu.
81. Because the liquid is non-toxic, more birds are likely to survive the ordeal than if petroleum were involved, he said.
82. From his side of the racial divide, the ordeal of mobilization proved simply redundant.
83. Then came her horrifying eight-day ordeal, during which Sams wrote to her employers demanding ￡175,000 ransom.
84. Many artistes got drunk before they faced the ordeal on stage.
85. Compared with his lone ordeal in the Danube, it wasn't too bad.
86. But she was spared from that ordeal when Anthony Bourgois pleaded guilty to charges of false imprisonment and carrying a knife.
87. I only hope that by following this advice other members do not face the ordeal to which Mr Holdsworth was subjected.
88. The family's ordeal began when the men burst into their Colchester bungalow, wearing balaclavas and brandishing sawn-off shotguns.
89. But for residents who have to travel by car to other towns in Silicon Valley, it will often be an ordeal.
90. Willetts detects in these later stories a reminiscence of a Minoan initiation ordeal.
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