punishingadjective
uk/ˈpʌn.ɪ.ʃɪŋ/us/ˈpʌn.ɪ.ʃɪŋ/very difficult and making you feel tired:
Currently she has a punishing schedule of five presentations a day.
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Complicated and difficult to do
- advanced
- ambitious
- another
- arduous
- as much as you can do idiom
- fiddly
- fiendish
- fierce
- formidable
- get blood out of/from a stone idiom
- murky
- painstaking
- picnic
- problematic
- rigorous
- schlep
- uphill
- vexed
- wearing
- wearying
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punishingly
adverb uk/ˈpʌn.ɪ.ʃɪŋ.li/us/ˈpʌn.ɪ.ʃɪŋ.li/
a punishingly heavy workload (= a very large amount of work)
punishingnoun
uk/ˈpʌn.ɪ.ʃɪŋ/us/ˈpʌn.ɪ.ʃɪŋ/informaltake a punishing
to be damaged because of rough treatment:
My tyres took quite a punishing on the rough terrain.
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Damaging and spoiling
- adulterate
- alloy
- at the expense of sb idiom
- at-risk
- bandh
- bang up sb/sth
- gild the lily idiom
- gloss
- gnaw
- gnaw away at sth
- go west idiom
- goonda
- poison
- ruin
- scourge
- shatter
- shoot sth up
- shred
- sour
- tell on sb
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