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Definition of Gruelling
1. Adjective. Characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort. "Set a punishing pace"
Similar to: Effortful
Derivative terms: Arduousness, Hardness, Heaviness, Labor, Laboriousness, Operoseness, Toilsomeness
Definition of Gruelling
1. Adjective. So difficult or taxing as to make one exhausted; backbreaking. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Gruelling
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gruelling
Literary usage of Gruelling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association by American Veterinary Medical Association. (1916)
"That such is the ease was proven at the outset by the test that was conducted,
and there never was a more gruelling test. I don't believe any animal was ..."
2. Textbook of Aero Engines by E H Sherbondy, G. Douglas Wardrop (1920)
"The gruelling conditions to which they were subjected gave an opportunity for
instructive comparisons of their efficiency, with those of the other types ..."
3. The Noble Science: A Few General Ideas on Fox-hunting, for the Use of the by Frederick Peter Delmé Radcliffe (1839)
"Truly you do all know enough about gruelling your horses, in one common acceptation
of the phrase; but, if you do know enough, you do not practise enough of ..."
4. History of the 126th Infantry in the War with Germany by Emil B. Gansser (1920)
"If not in the front line yourselves, you were in close support of it, and no
matter how gruelling the fight, Westnedge and his officers and men were ready ..."
5. The Forward Pass in Football by Elmer Berry (1921)
"They were worse the next day and still worse the next, dragging back ready for
another gruelling pummelling by the following Saturday. ..."
6. History of the Sixth Engineers (1920)
"Then began the stiff training schedule which was to put not only the regiment,
but also the wearers of the Red Cross, in condition for the two gruelling ..."
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