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单词 punishing
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Examples of 'punishing' in a sentence
punishing

A psychiatrist would say she is punishing me through her boyfriends for marrying Sophie.The rudeness of the silence crushed Luther; Hugh might have made a few mistakes, but punishing him in this way was wrong.To punish her more, in the same way she's delighted for so long in punishing me.

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punishing

British English: punishing ADJECTIVE
A punishing schedule, activity, or experience requires a lot of physical effort and makes you very tired or weak.
...his punishing work schedule.
  • American English: punishing
  • Brazilian Portuguese: desgastante
  • Chinese: 繁重费力的
  • European Spanish: agotador
  • French: épuisant
  • German: hart
  • Italian: sfiancante
  • Japanese: 過酷な
  • Korean: 매우 힘든
  • European Portuguese: desgastante
  • Latin American Spanish: agotador

(adjective) 
his punishing work schedule
Synonyms
hard
Coping with three babies is very hard work.
taxing
You won't be asked to do anything too taxing.
demanding
It is a demanding job.
grinding
wearing
She finds his continual demands very wearing.
tiring
It had been a long and tiring day.
exhausting
She had set herself an exhausting schedule.
uphill
It had been an uphill struggle to achieve what she wanted.
gruelling
The flight was more gruelling than I had expected.
strenuous
Avoid strenuous exercise in the evening.
arduous
The task was more arduous than he had calculated.
burdensome
backbreaking
Opposites
light
,
easy
,
simple
,
effortless
,
undemanding
,
cushy (informal)
,
untaxing
,
unexacting

Additional synonyms

in the sense of arduous
Definition
difficult to accomplish
The task was more arduous than he had calculated.
Synonyms
difficult,
trying,
hard,
tough,
tiring,
severe,
painful,
exhausting,
punishing,
harsh,
taxing,
heavy,
steep,
formidable,
fatiguing,
rigorous,
troublesome,
gruelling,
strenuous,
onerous,
laborious,
burdensome,
backbreaking,
toilsome (literary)
in the sense of demanding
Definition
requiring a lot of skill, time, or effort
It is a demanding job.
Synonyms
difficult,
trying,
hard,
taxing,
wearing,
challenging,
tough,
exhausting,
exacting,
exigent
in the sense of exhausting
She had set herself an exhausting schedule.
Synonyms
tiring,
hard,
testing,
taxing,
difficult,
draining,
punishing,
crippling,
fatiguing,
wearying,
gruelling,
sapping,
debilitating,
strenuous,
arduous,
laborious,
enervating,
backbreaking

Nearby words of
punishing

  • pungent
  • punish
  • punishable
  • punishing
  • punishment
  • punitive
  • punk

Related terms of
punishing

  • punish

Synonyms of 'punishing'

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Additional synonyms

in the sense of gruelling
Definition
extremely severe or tiring
The flight was more gruelling than I had expected.
Synonyms
exhausting,
demanding,
difficult,
tiring,
trying,
hard,
taxing,
grinding,
severe,
crushing,
fierce,
punishing,
harsh,
stiff,
brutal,
fatiguing,
strenuous,
arduous,
laborious,
backbreaking
in the sense of strenuous
Definition
requiring or involving the use of great energy or effort
Avoid strenuous exercise in the evening.
Synonyms
demanding,
hard,
tough,
exhausting,
taxing,
uphill,
arduous,
laborious,
Herculean,
tough going,
toilsome (literary),
unrelaxing
in the sense of taxing
You won't be asked to do anything too taxing.
Synonyms
demanding,
trying,
wearing,
heavy,
tough,
tiring,
punishing,
exacting,
stressful,
sapping,
onerous,
burdensome,
wearisome,
enervating
in the sense of tiring
It had been a long and tiring day.
Synonyms
exhausting,
demanding,
wearing,
tough,
exacting,
fatiguing,
wearying,
strenuous,
arduous,
laborious,
enervative
in the sense of uphill
Definition
requiring a great deal of effort
It had been an uphill struggle to achieve what she wanted.
Synonyms
arduous,
hard,
taxing,
difficult,
tough,
exhausting,
punishing,
gruelling,
strenuous,
laborious,
wearisome,
Sisyphean
in the sense of wearing
Definition
causing exhaustion and sometimes irritation
She finds his continual demands very wearing.
Synonyms
tiresome,
trying,
taxing,
tiring,
exhausting,
fatiguing,
oppressive,
exasperating,
irksome,
wearisome
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