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tribulation
Great affliction, trial, or distress; suffering:
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  1. Great affliction, trial, or distress; suffering:
  2. An experience that tests one's endurance, patience, or faith.
distress
The act of distraining another’s property. See also distrain. The act of distraining another’s property. See also distrain.
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  1. The act of distraining another’s property. See also distrain. The act of distraining another’s property. See also distrain.
  2. Physical deterioration, as of a highway, caused by hard use over time:
  3. Bodily dysfunction or discomfort caused by disease or injury:
calamity
Deep trouble or misery
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  1. Deep trouble or misery
  2. Any extreme misfortune bringing great loss and sorrow; disaster
  3. An event that brings terrible loss, lasting distress, or severe affliction; a disaster:
crucible
A place, time, or situation in which different social forces or intellectual influences come together and cause new developments:
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  1. A place, time, or situation in which different social forces or intellectual influences come together and cause new developments:
  2. An extremely difficult experience or situation; a severe test or trial:
  3. A severe test or trial
trial
An effort or attempt:
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  1. An effort or attempt:
  2. The act or process of testing, trying, or putting to the proof:
  3. An instance of such a proceeding:
tribulation
An experience that tests one's endurance, patience, or faith.
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  1. An experience that tests one's endurance, patience, or faith.
  2. Great affliction, trial, or distress; suffering:
visitation
The act or an instance of visiting; esp., an official visit to inspect or examine, as that made by a bishop to a church in his diocese
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  1. The act or an instance of visiting; esp., an official visit to inspect or examine, as that made by a bishop to a church in his diocese
  2. The action or an instance of visiting or an instance of being visited:
  3. The provision made for a parent to spend time with a child who is in the physical custody of another.
Find another word for ordeal. In this page you can discover 10 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for ordeal, like: tribulation, distress, calamity, difficulty, trial, crucible, trial, tribulation, visitation and easy.

Sentence Examples

  • This must have been quite an ordeal for her.

  • She had done nothing but cry, complain and faint since this ordeal had begun.

  • Once my telephone ordeal was over, everything was out of our hands.

  • The long ordeal in the desert was over, but what waited for her now was uncertain.

  • There was also a considerable amount of new legislatiofl with the object of protecting the minor subjects of the crown, and the system of trial by jurors was advanced to the detriment of the absurd old practices of trial by ordeal and trial by wager of battle.

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