Gruelling

Quick meaning: Gruelling is an adjective meaning (British spelling) Very difficult or taxing; exhausting; backbreaking.

Meaning

(British spelling) Very difficult or taxing; exhausting; backbreaking.

More Meanings

1. (horse racing) A race in which the animal being raced finishes in a state of physical exhaustion.
2. A gruelling ordeal.
3. present participle and gerund of gruel

Example Sentences

'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?'

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.

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."

When "Red Robin's" other great son, "Dee Rock", was retired to stud in 1935 I recollect, too, the pessimistic prophecies of those sceptics that a dog that had endured so many gruellings in the field would never accomplish much at stud.

Word Forms

• gruellings

Synonyms for gruelling

Depending on context, synonyms include backbreaking, taxing, arduous, heavy, hard, grueling.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include punishing, arduous, laborious, backbreaking, toilsome, labourious.

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