Usually means: Exhausting and demanding extensive effort.
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  1. gruelling: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. gruelling: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. gruelling: Collins English Dictionary
  4. gruelling: Vocabulary.com
  5. Gruelling, gruelling: Wordnik
  6. gruelling: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. gruelling: Wiktionary
  8. gruelling: Dictionary.com
  9. gruelling: Rhymezone
  10. gruelling: Free Dictionary
  11. gruelling: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. gruelling: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. gruelling: Encyclopedia

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adjective:  So difficult or taxing as to make one exhausted; backbreaking.
noun:  (horse racing) A race in which the animal being raced finishes in a state of physical exhaustion.
noun:  A gruelling ordeal.

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