[usuallysing.] ~ (of sth / of doing sth) a difficult or unpleasant experience:
They are to be spared the ordeal of giving evidence in court. * The hostages spoke openly about the terrible ordeal they had been through. * The interview was less of an ordeal than she'd expected.
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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This entry for ordeal is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is ordeal a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, ordeal is tagged as noun.
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