Definitions
Very difficult, painful, or exhausting experience.
Word origin
From Middle English ordel, ordal, from Medieval Latin ordālium or inherited from its source Old English ordēl, ordāl (“ordeal, judgement”), from Proto-West Germanic *uʀdailī (“judgement”, literally “an out-dealing”), from *uʀdailijan (“to deal out; dispense”). For more, see Old English or-, English deal.
Used in a sentence
“trial by ordeal”
“All the same, nearly eight hours on the footplate covering a distance of 320 miles, with an ambient temperature of up to 103° for much of the time, proved an ordeal which I would not lightly undertake again.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Difficult experience”6 letters
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