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toilsome

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toil·some  (toilsm)
adj.
Characterized by or requiring toil.
toilsome·ly adv.
toilsome·ness n.
toilsome [ˈtɔɪlsəm], toilful
adj
laborious
toilsomely  adv
toilsomeness  n
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Adj.1.toilsome - characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort; "worked their arduous way up the mining valley"; "a grueling campaign"; "hard labor"; "heavy work"; "heavy going"; "spent many laborious hours on the project"; "set a punishing pace"
arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, laborious, operose, punishing, hard, heavy
effortful - requiring great physical effort
Translations
toilsome [ˈtɔɪlsəm] ADJ (liter) → penoso, laborioso, arduo
toilsome
adj (liter) → mühselig, mühsam


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Their progress, in consequence, was proportionate; and long before the twilight gathered about them, they had made good many toilsome miles on their return.
The Last of The Mohicans by Cooper, James Fenimore View in context
We durst not go far from our bark, and therefore were obliged to a toilsome march along the windings of the shore, sometimes clambering up rocks, and sometimes wading through the sands, so that we were every moment in the utmost danger of falling from the one, or sinking in the other.
A Voyage to Abyssinia by Lobo, Father View in context
In the course of a day or two more, the travellers entered that wild and broken tract of the Crow country called the Black Hills, and here their journey became toilsome in the extreme.
The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U.S.A., in the Rocky Mountains and the far West by Irving, Washington View in context
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