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Characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort.
hard
heavy
punishing
laborious
arduous
gruelling
grueling
backbreaking
operose
effortful
hard
heavy
punishing
laborious
arduous
1
First year was fine, he says, but second year was very
hard
.
2
But there's also a lot of
hard
work involved, often physical work.
3
It has been a year of
hard
work, focus, and great success.
4
Result: Stylish and yet
hard
to use and packed with proprietary technology.
5
Crew members don't just work
hard
-they often work every day.
1
China's new climate-related insurance services, however, often depend on
heavy
government subsidies.
2
Reporting remains subject to
heavy
legal constraint, thus key information remains obscured.
3
Twenty years of freedom have seen
heavy
investment is Soweto's public transport.
4
And Western Australia has particularly
heavy
penalties under its Public Health Act.
5
There is also new evidence that
heavy
precipitation has increased in Europe.
1
Mr Vailea said teachers
punishing
students physically is clearly against the law.
2
The market seems to be
punishing
companies in that position, he added.
3
It was
punishing
;
he had never before done such hard physical work.
4
The main end of the
punishing
affair was to feed their writing.
5
We could also start
punishing
all murderers with public torture and beheading.
1
The work was
laborious
and pointless, as far as Aylaen could see.
2
Time went on; things happened; but Ryecroft was still
laborious
and poor.
3
Similarly, advances in science and medicine have been achieved through
laborious
research.
4
In one minute the respiration was
laborious
,
and the pupils were dilated.
5
Health and posterity are the portion of the poor- Imeanthe
laborious
.
1
She helped people with the
arduous
paperwork involved in collecting government aid.
2
Revitalizing the New Orleans streetcar system has been a slow,
arduous
process.
3
It is
arduous
and often painful, but helps provide for their families.
4
These
arduous
examinations, particularly the Leaving, are also a uniquely Irish experience.
5
It had been a long,
arduous
journey through New Crobuzon's vaulted conduits.
1
The following year he had a
gruelling
training period in nine movies.
2
Few Irish athletes remain more committed, particularly in such a
gruelling
event.
3
A set of knives and the beginning of a
gruelling
training regime.
4
Yet again we have seen
gruelling
evidence thirty-two teams are too many.
5
Their ascent has been far longer and more
gruelling
than Veronica expected.
1
It was 13 weeks of
grueling
work chest-deep in water and cold.
2
Photo: supplied In the south island another
grueling
event is also underway.
3
A
grueling
multi-hour training session may call for 90 grams per hour.
4
A month of hard travel-aftera month of
grueling
training and heartache.
5
Ferreting him out was going to be a long,
grueling
,
time-consuming process.
1
New York then added two
backbreaking
goals late in the second period.
2
The going was harder now; it was
backbreaking
work pulling the line.
3
He'd take a bit of marching over that
backbreaking
work any time.
4
It was a
backbreaking
job, and the real work hadn't even begun.
5
Tommy wondered, too, whether his father's
backbreaking
work was hurting his golf.
1
Some of the Xenia are far-fetched and
operose
,
while others sound rather vacuous.
2
But what an
operose
method!
1
She had before her a
toilsome
journey in the companionship of men.
2
And now commenced their
toilsome
journey down the side of the cataract.
3
Contrast with this
toilsome
slowness the speed of the junk bound down-stream.
4
Two years or more passed away in quiet,
toilsome
days for Mildred.
5
It was the same old smoky,
toilsome
place, a perceptible bit lower.
6
But operations through being
toilsome
and fatiguing are not pleasant but disagreeable.
7
This opportunity of rest was exceedingly acceptable after so
toilsome
a pilgrimage.
8
A
toilsome
day, over the roughest of roads, brought us opposite Chumba.
9
To this place, it is no longer a
toilsome
journey from Boston.
10
Well, I got from that to confidence-througha series of
toilsome
efforts.
11
A more
toilsome
day's work than we had could not be imagined.
12
But how wilt thou be able to sustain a journey so
toilsome
?
13
It was a long and
toilsome
progress; but in time we accomplished it.
14
Thus was the labor of weary,
toilsome
years destroyed in a few moments.
15
The log houses in the clearing, the
toilsome
and exciting time.
16
Long and
toilsome
has been the march; hot, dusty, and parching the day.
toilsome
toilsome journey
more toilsome
toilsome life
toilsome one
toilsome way