punishing

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punishing Definition

• (a) resulting in punishment; "the king imposed a punishing tax"
• (s) characterized by toilsome effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort; "worked their arduous way up the mining valley"; "a grueling campaign"; "hard labor"; "heavy work"; "heavy going"; "spent many laborious hours on the project"; "set a

punishing Synonyms

• arduous
• backbreaking
• grueling
• gruelling
• hard
• heavy
• laborious
• punishing
• toilsome