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ar·du·ous (är

adj.

1. Demanding great effort or labor; difficult: "the arduous work of preparing a Dictionary of the English Language" (Thomas Macaulay).

2. Testing severely the powers of endurance; strenuous: a long, arduous, and exhausting war.

3. Hard to traverse, climb, or surmount. See Synonyms at burdensome, hard.

[From Latin arduus, high, steep.]

ardu·ous·ly adv.

ardu·ous·ness n.

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Adv.

arduously - in an arduous manner; "they worked arduously"

Translations

arduously [ˈɑːdjʊəslɪ] ADV [work] → arduamente; [climb] → con dificultad, penosamente

arduously [ˈɑːdjʊəslɪ] adv → a fatica, con difficoltà

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