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    Inflicting or aiming to inflict punishment: disciplinary, punitive, punitory. See reward/punish/deserve.

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Definition: arduous
Antonyms: easy, effortless

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The adjective has 2 meanings:

Meaning #1: resulting in punishment
  Participle of verb: punish (meaning #1)

Meaning #2: characterized by toilsome effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort
  Synonyms: arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, labourious, toilsome

 
 
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