Synonyms for grueling
gru·el·ing

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1. arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsomeadjective

   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:
   backbreaking, sullen, ponderous, laborious, overweight, toilsome, intemperate, sound, wakeless, dense, with child(p), threatening, grave, straining, severe, cloggy, lumbering, large(p), great(p), clayey, enceinte, voiceless, grievous, tough, fleshy, weighed down, hard, weighty, unvoiced, gruelling, expectant, concentrated, lowering, surd, heavy(a), sonorous, impenetrable, arduous, operose, strenuous, heavy, heavy(p), big(a), labored, profound, difficult, laboured, punishing, strong, gravid, big(p), leaden, knockout

   Antonyms:
   effortless

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1. Gretchen Whitmer:

   Today is an exciting, happy, joyful moment, it’s been a grueling 15 months.

2. Jen Psaki:

   Working on a presidential campaign…and working in the first year of a White House is exciting and rewarding, but it is also grueling and exhausting, it’s all of those things at once.

3. Tom Holland:

   The important thing is that this is a true story about real people and we had a duty as actors to do justice to these characters, ron (Howard) made sure that every aspect of this film was authentic so that meant we had to starve, learn how to sail, really go out to sea, so it was pretty grueling, but ... all for a good reason.

4. Alexander Ludwig:

   The show is not for divas, it’s grueling.

5. Scott Russell:

   These are living legends with catalogs to match, giants of music history still walking the earth despite decades in a grueling industry. You may be able to hear the years in Bob Dylan's voice, but that's never what made his music special to begin with, touring is a major strain on the body and mind, so any artist still on the road at an advanced age is doing it for more than just financial security.