punishing
adjective
1 punishing
Resulting in punishment.
Roget 972: punishing etc. v.; penal; punitory†, punitive; inflictive, castigatory; punished etc. v..
2 punishing
Characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort:
— Set a punishing pace.
synonyms: arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, operose, toilsome.
Polish: morderczy, katorżniczy
Moby thesaurus: Herculean, arduous, backbreaking, burdensome, castigatory, chastening, chastising, corrective, crushing, demanding, disciplinary, draining, effortful, exhausting, fatiguesome, fatiguing, forced, grueling, hard, hard-earned ... show more.
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