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[ adjective ] characterized by toilsome effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort
Examples "worked their arduous way up the mining valley" "a grueling campaign" "hard labor" "heavy work" "heavy going" "spent many laborious hours on the project" Used in print (John Harnsberger and Robert P. Wilkins,...)By fall , 443 survivors of this arduous journey were clustered about Fort_Snelling , but most_of them were sent_on to Galena and St._Louis , with a few going as far as Vevay , Indiana , a notable Swiss center in the United_States . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] difficult to accomplish; demanding considerable mental effort and skill
Examples "the arduous work of preparing a dictionary" Related terms |
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