PUNISHING

• (adj.) resulting in punishment

  "the king imposed a punishing tax"

• (adj.) characterized by 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 pace"

  synonyms : arduous , backbreaking , grueling , gruelling , hard , heavy , laborious , operose , toilsome

  Every morning, the miners worked their arduous way up the mining valley. -added by naila_inlas

  running a marathon is grueling -added by nithi

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