strenuousadjective
uk/ˈstren.ju.əs/us/ˈstren.ju.əs/C2 needing or using a lot of physical or mental effort or energy:
He rarely does anything more strenuous than changing the channels on the television.
His doctor advised him not to do any strenuous exercise.
Strenuous efforts were made throughout the war to disguise the scale of civilian casualties.
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Effort and expending energy
- apply
- assiduous
- be running on empty idiom
- bust a gut idiom
- concentrated
- conscientious
- fight
- jump
- mightily
- mind
- overcompensate
- pains
- painstaking
- painstakingly
- shot
- slog
- slugger
- thirsty work
- trial and error
- work up sth
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Complicated and difficult to do
strenuously
adverb uk/ˈstren.ju.əs.li/us/ˈstren.ju.əs.li/
He strenuously denies all the allegations against him.
Most local residents strenuously object to the building proposals.