Usually means: Difficult, stressful tests or experiences.
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We found 12 dictionaries that define the word ordeals:

General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. ordeals: Merriam-Webster
  2. ordeals: Collins English Dictionary
  3. ordeals: Vocabulary.com
  4. Ordeals, ordeals: Wordnik
  5. ordeals: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. ordeals: Wiktionary
  7. ordeals: Dictionary.com
  8. ordeals: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Ordeals: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Ordeals: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Ordeals: Encyclopedia

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Ordeals: Catholic Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (ordeal)

noun:  A painful or trying experience.
noun:  A trial in which the accused was subjected to a dangerous test (such as ducking in water), divine authority deciding the guilt of the accused. (See Trial by ordeal on Wikipedia.Wikipedia)
noun:  The poisonous ordeal bean or Calabar bean
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