Usually means: Exhausting and demanding extensive effort.
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  1. grueling: Merriam-Webster
  2. grueling: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. grueling: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. grueling: Collins English Dictionary
  5. grueling: Vocabulary.com
  6. Grueling, grueling: Wordnik
  7. grueling: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. grueling: Wiktionary
  9. grueling: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. grueling: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. grueling: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. grueling: Dictionary.com
  13. grueling: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. grueling: Rhymezone
  15. grueling: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. grueling: FreeDictionary.org
  17. grueling: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. grueling: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. grueling: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. grueling: Encyclopedia

(Note: See gruelingly as well.)

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

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