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punishing
adjective /ˈpʌn.ɪ.ʃɪŋ/Definition
› very difficult and making you feel tired: Currently she has a punishing schedule of five presentations a day.Complicated and difficult to doDifficult to understand punishingly
/-li/ adverb › a punishingly heavy workload (= a very large amount of work)Complicated and difficult to doDifficult to understand
(Definition of punishing adjective from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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