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gruelling

English

Alternative forms

  • grueling

Etymology

From present particle of gruel (to exhaust, punish), from gruel (noun).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /?????.l??/
  • (US) IPA(key): /???u.l??/, /???u.?l.??/

Adjective

gruelling (comparative more gruelling, superlative most gruelling)

  1. So difficult or taxing as to make one exhausted; backbreaking.

Synonyms

  • (so difficult or taxing as to make one exhausted): backbreaking, exhausting

Translations

Noun

gruelling (plural gruellings)

  1. (racing) A race in which the animal being raced finishes in a state of physical exhaustion.
  2. A gruelling ordeal.

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disquieting

English

Etymology

disquiet +? -ing.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: dis?quiet?ing

Adjective

disquieting (comparative more disquieting, superlative most disquieting)

  1. Causing mental trouble or anguish; upsetting; making uneasy.

Translations

Verb

disquieting

  1. present participle of disquiet.

Noun

disquieting (plural disquietings)

  1. The act by which someone or something is disquieted.
    • 1640, Edward Reynolds, A treatise of the passions and faculties of the soule of man
      Thus we see the intuition of divine truth in minds of defiled affections, worketh not that sweet effect which is natural unto it to produce; but doubtings, terrors, and disquietings of conscience []

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