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punishing

English

  1. 🔊 resulting in punishment
    “the king imposed a punishing tax”
  2. 🔊 characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion
    “worked their arduous way up the mining valley”

Similar words

arduous backbreaking grueling gruelling hard heavy laborious operose toilsome herculean arduous backbreaking burdensome castigatory chastening chastising corrective crushing demanding disciplinary draining effortful exhausting fatiguesome