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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91. It was the only crumb of comfort he could salvage from the ordeal.
92. Luckily the police have spared me the ordeal of telling Proby, and also kept my bones intact.
93. The boy was said to be calm after his 15-minute ordeal.
94. Inside the reef, on calmer waters, the boy gratefully nodded off to sleep, exhausted by his ordeal.
95. Although the animal glowed rosy-pink, it appeared none the worse for its ordeal.
96. Just as well that she had been at least spared the ordeal of having to face him this morning.
97. The banning of the ordeal symbolized a triumph for rational argument over the old magical formulas.
98. After this ordeal Tom left him to have a soak and slowly Willie began to unwind.
99. This means that interviews are often an ordeal for inquisitor and subject alike.
100. The hostages were eventually released after undergoing a terrifying ordeal.
101. Here she speaks for the first time about her ordeal to Margaret Hall.
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102. The house was an ordeal for visiting children, who were always getting lost.
103. Dreadfully overcrowded trains and frequent cancellations made commuting an ordeal.
104. The family's ordeal began when the men burst into their Colchester bungalow.
105. The driver, who is stuck with a truckload of oranges, called his company to tell of his ordeal.
106. There is no evidence that the ordeal was very effective.
107. Julia's courage must be a great inspiration to those people facing a similar ordeal.
108. And he had put himself through a hellish ordeal this morning.
109. His new movie is about the ordeal of a college student after she is raped.
110. Worse was my omission of any mention of the essential ordeal by blanching of the vegetables, and of course of the scallops.
111. Even for an adult, it would be an inhumanly cruel ordeal.
112. Their ordeal ended when a bank security guard spotted something suspicious on a television monitor and raised the alarm.
113. All she wanted was to relax and clear her mind for the ordeal.
114. She was simply too exhausted to go through the ordeal of moving the family again.
115. I have no doubt this has been a terrible ordeal for you and the verdict is a personal and professional catastrophe.
116. But it was a frightful ordeal and six of the crew lost their lives there.
117. Anguished Bernadette spoke of her ordeal since Mr Onanuga left home 16 days ago.
118. It was a terrible ordeal for my hon. and learned Friend and for his family.
119. Support Both families are staying close, supporting each other through their ordeal.
120. Thus began an ordeal in which Autry hired a lawyer and filed a lawsuit.
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