gruelling
adjEtymology
From present participle of gruel (“to exhaust, punish”), from gruel (noun).
Definitions
Very difficult or taxing
Very difficult or taxing; exhausting; backbreaking.
A race in which the animal being raced finishes in a state of physical exhaustion.
- The course was given to the black puppy, but his chance was generally considered to have been utterly destroyed by the two gruellings he had received.
A gruelling ordeal.
- It was the hardest fighting that our Canadians have been up against, and the manner in which they took these terrible gruellings and assaults is one of the most creditable occurrences in the annals of this great war."
- 'Give me a buzz when you think you can squeeze me in between English lit and the pinball championships and the gruellings of overwork, OK?'
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present participle and gerund of gruel
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at gruelling. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at gruelling. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
8 hops · closes at gruelling
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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