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ordeal

noun as in trouble, suffering

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This is a new version of Catman, his past is yet to be told, but an ordeal made him not just badass, but flawed, deeply flawed.

Every visit to a hospital is an ordeal but for those who cannot pay for private care the experience is a horror show.

At no time during his ordeal was Turing able to publicly reveal the far greater secret that had framed his life since 1940.

Yet the entire ordeal opened up so many new possibilities, both for Dr. Grenci and those who followed her case.

“The whole ordeal gave me a thicker skin,” she said, reflecting on the incident.

So she did ask, though it was a great ordeal to make up her mind to do it; and they gave my mother a thousand francs.

They will try to compel you to confession; and, though you are blameless, you will suffer the cruelest ordeal of transgression.

But today—after that terrible ordeal, she felt as if life held little for her, that she was now unfit to perform any womanly duty.

It seems that there must have been some supernatural power of support to have sustained children under so awful an ordeal.

More than once she resolved to tell her father her true feelings, but shrank from the ordeal.

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On this page you'll find 47 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to ordeal, such as: agony, anguish, calamity, difficulty, nightmare, and torment.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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