Meanings
adjectivegrueling (comparative more grueling, superlative most grueling)
comparative more grueling · superlative most grueling
- alternativeAlternative spelling of gruelling.
Medical school, internship, and residency had been physically and emotionally grueling.
2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies, Fourth Estate (2011), page 4
verb
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of gruel
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivecharacterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort
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