Word Finder - arduous

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Needing or using up much energy; testing powers of endurance.

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The movement towards a peaceful settlement has been a long and arduous political struggle.

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Burning; ardent

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Difficult or exhausting to traverse.

It was an arduous trip.

It was an arduous climb up the mountain.

They began the arduous climb, puffing in the high elevation for ten minutes until the trail leveled and opened to their left.

It was not too arduous a task for a Sunday morning.

The job involved the most arduous of conditions with no maintenance or lubrication.

During his residence at Hamilton, besides the arduous duties of medical practice, he found time to devote to the study of the natural sciences, and especially of chemistry.

The arduous journey into the center of the great desert began.

It was an arduous undertaking for applicants, taking up to 40 hours to complete.

The mountain climbers tackled the arduous terrain.

But it required the arduous labours of the archaeologist to prove a proposition that, once proven, seems self-evident.

The relations with France gradually became colder, and at the end of his reign Charles favoured an alliance with England; he died in 1378 at the age of sixty-two, prematurely exhausted by arduous work.

The election, undecided by the popular vote, was thrown into the house, and resulted in the choice of John Quincy Adams, who in 1826 drew Gallatin from his retirement and sent him as minister to England to conduct another complicated and arduous negotiation.

After an arduous campaign, the Natal force (about 5000 strong) being commanded by Col.

In the United States there has been an arduous struggle over this question, and combinations of merchants have sometimes compelled favourable terms. In England, though the merchant has maintained a great part of the trade with shopkeepers, the developing trade with makers of shirts, underclothing, &c., is mainly done by the manufacturers directly, and perhaps the simplification of relations by direct dealing in the cotton trade has now reached a point of fairly stable compromise.

Its scope, wide as the universe, can be compassed no otherwise than bystatistical means p and the collection of materials for this purpose involves most arduous preliminary labour.

Thereafter he resided successively at Toulon, St Tropez and Antibes, doing useful work in fortifying the coast and using his spare time in arduous study of the science of war.

The arduous trek to base camp is quite dangerous.

His consort, Elizabeth of Austria, "the mother of the Jagiellos," bore him six sons and seven daughters, and by her affection and good counsel materially relieved the constant anxieties and grievous burdens of his long and arduous reign.

In three arduous campaigns, the two first of which were conducted by the emperor himself while the third was directed by Manuel Comnenus, the Turks were defeated in detail and finally (1070) driven across the Euphrates.

Notwithstanding the arduous duties of his professorship he found time for investigation in all the fields of physical science; and he published a very large number of dissertations, some of them of considerable length, on a wide variety of subjects.

Probably no more arduous task was ever thrown upon a public department than that imposed on the Post Office by the transfer.

The original Pattinson process has been in many cases replaced by the LuceRozan process (1870), which does away with arduous labour and attains a more satisfactory crystallization.

Such was Johnson's reputation that, in 1747, several eminent booksellers combined to employ him in the arduous work of preparing a Dictionary of the English Language, in two folio volumes.

That the Book of God could give a solution, even of this arduous case, was doubtless the firm belief of both parties.

Most of the power at court was in the hands of the Woodvilles, in spite of their unpopularity; the more arduous work of administration in the north was left to Richard of Gloucester.

Tillage operations on such land are easily interrupted by rain, and the period always much limited in which they can be prosecuted at all; the compactness and toughness of the soil renders each operation more arduous, and its repetition more necessary than in the case of dry land.

Fund raising is arduous to get money for research that involves any type of human risk.

They began the arduous task of choosing its drivers from the many letters received.

During the Russo-Japanese War he served in the Red Cross and in the Municipal Union for the organization of hospitals; he was left to take care of the Russian wounded after the battle of Moukden, and showed much dignity and efficiency in the performance of his arduous duties.

But the work is too arduous to allow of long and desultory conversation; the chance of contamination is now minimized by the careful separation of the less hardened from the old offenders.

Kepler's ineradicable belief in the existence of some such congruity was derived from the Pythagorean idea of an underlying harmony in nature; but his arduous efforts for its realization took a devious and fantastic course which seemed to give little promise of their surprising ultimate success.

On his return to Japan he was entrusted with the arduous duty of drafting a constitution.

How the stars really move in space, and how the sun travels among them, can be ascertained only with the aid of materials collected by the spectrograph, which has now fortunately been brought to comply with the arduous conditions of exactitude requisite for collaboration with the transit instrument and its allies, the clock and chronograph.

Mrs. Hull worked the night shift herself when she took over the home and found the work not arduous.

Although he carried his troops over that long and arduous march with almost unexampled rapidity, he only arrived after the insurrection had been put down.

Working in the watch repair field can be an arduous task.

It is an arduous race, for only the fittest, yet the race is always booked early to its maximum.

His episcopal labours were still more arduous.

After an arduous march and in spite of the mutinous behaviour of his troops, Selim, crushed the Persians at Chaldiran (1515) and became master of the whole of Kurdistan.

No sooner had he entered on his new duties than his great capacity for arduous work was put to a severe test.

After an arduous journey by Multan, and through part of Rajputana, he reached Somnath,, and met with a very vigorous but fruitless resistance on the part.

It is possible that a member of Panfilo de Narvaez's expedition of 1528 entered what is now southern Alabama, but the first fully authenticated visit was that of Hernando de Soto, who made an arduous but fruitless journey along the Coosa, Alabama and Tombigbee rivers in 1539.

He was much exhausted by the arduous labours which for more than nine years he had sustained.

After an arduous and anxious term, the president had reached a period that promised to give him comparative repose and freedom from care.

Mathematical analysis needed half a century of cultivation before it was fully available for the arduous tasks reserved for it.

In the bestwatered districts agriculture is naturally of the greatest importance, except where the density of the forest renders the work of clearing too arduous.

Gessi, after a most arduous campaign (1878-79), in which he displayed great military skill, defeated and captured Suliman, whom, with other ringleaders, he executed.

The siege of Sevastopol was in progress, and he had his full share of the arduous work in the trenches.

Howie was so pleased he promised to send us air fare, eliminating another arduous auto trip.

These arduous periods should become fewer as you become more closely acquainted with your subject.