Labourers on plantations often face gruelling hours, low pay, and no job security.
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Gruelling
//ˈɡɹu.lɪŋ//
Synonyms for "gruelling" (15 found)
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Closest matches (3)
Strong matches (5)
Adjective(3 words)
Adjective(2 words)
Related words (7)
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1 entriesderived from
1 entriesetymologically related_to
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1 entriesrelated to
8 entriessimilar
1 entriesTranslations
24 translations across 15 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- изтощителен adj (very difficult or taxing)
- мъчителен adj (very difficult or taxing)
Catalan
1 entries- ardu adj (very difficult or taxing)
Czech
3 entries- vysilující adj (very difficult or taxing)
- vyčerpávající adj (very difficult or taxing)
- únavný adj (very difficult or taxing)
Dutch
2 entries- afmattend adj (very difficult or taxing)
- uitputtend adj (very difficult or taxing)
Finnish
1 entries- uuvuttava adj (very difficult or taxing)
French
2 entries- exténuant adj (very difficult or taxing)
- éreintant adj (very difficult or taxing)
Galician
1 entries- esgotador adj (very difficult or taxing)
German
1 entries- zermürbend adj (very difficult or taxing)
Italian
1 entries- estenuante adj (very difficult or taxing)
Polish
1 entries- wyczerpujący adj (very difficult or taxing)
Portuguese
2 entries- esgotante adj (very difficult or taxing)
- exaustivo adj (very difficult or taxing)
Russian
2 entries- изнури́тельный adj (very difficult or taxing)
- истощающий adj (very difficult or taxing)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- iscrpljujući adj (very difficult or taxing)
Spanish
3 entries- agotador adj (very difficult or taxing)
- extenuante adj (very difficult or taxing)
- penoso adj (very difficult or taxing)
Ukrainian
1 entries- виснажливий adj (very difficult or taxing)
Sample sentences
11 total sentences available.
It's gruelling work.
Source: tatoeba (11535973)
Safin was clearly mentally and physically tired from a gruelling fortnight in Melbourne. He had spent nearly 19 hours on the court before reaching the final.
Source: tatoeba (12150431)
Diggle Station lies high up in the Pennine Chain, subject to extreme low temperatures. With this and heavy snowfall in the winter months, Diggle bids fair to compete with the Scottish lines under similar weather conditions, and the provision of unfrozen water in the higher ambient temperature of the tunnel must be a boon to harassed engine drivers whose thirsty steeds run short of water up the gruelling 1 in 125 seven-mile climb from Stalybridge.
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