(adj) characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort, Syn. punishing, heavy, gruelling, laborious, toilsome, hard, operose, backbreaking, grueling, Example:worked their arduous way up the mining valley; a grueling campaign; hard labor; heavy work; heavy going; spent many laborious hours on the project; set a punishing pace
[かんぜんちょうあく, kanzenchouaku] (n) rewarding good and punishing evil; novel or drama with a rewarding-good-and-punishing-evil theme; moral purpose; morality play; (P)