ordeal
IPA: ɔrdˈiɫ
noun
- A painful or trying experience.
- A trial in which the accused was subjected to a dangerous test (such as ducking in water), divine authority deciding the guilt of the accused.
- The poisonous ordeal bean or Calabar bean
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Examples of "ordeal" in Sentences
- The young man survives the ordeal.
- The ordeal had shown God's judgment in the matter.
- The firm was fortunate not to be bankrupted by the ordeal.
- The wood was removed, so the ordeal was of longer duration.
- Accounts of the ordeals of the wounded are horrific reading.
- By the end of the 9 hour ordeal, Norman was the only survivor.
- At the Ordeal level the the password is typically the admonition.
- She denied the accusations and was subjected to the ordeal of water.
- Koreatown experienced the hardest crime and destruction of the ordeal.
- The child was frightened, embarrassed, and crying throughout the ordeal.
- What happens to Harry after his ordeal is over should be left to the imagination of the reader.
- Agence France-Presse/Getty Images Trapped Chilean miners 'letters suggest their ordeal is changing them.
- However, the largest crime in this ordeal is the response of the people who act as if they are so crushed by his actions.
- Now, looking back on the past few tumultuous years, he can glean a glimmer of satisfaction from what he calls his ordeal by humiliation.
- How these two, and the other 31 miners, will be changed by their ordeal is something friends and psychologists are grappling to understand.
- The oddest part of the whole ordeal is that despite this original usage, there's an affirmation of Christ's presence in the communities of the Reformation without an affirmation of their catholicity.
- Otherwise, I am not even watching the daily reruns on cable of "Grey's Anatomy" -- my own body and midstream ordeal is swallowing the lion's share of my focus right now, and as Stuart Smalley would say, "That's okay."
- The entire ordeal is influenced by the coal lobby on one side and anti-nuclear forces on the other ... but simply streamlining nuclear licensing while prohibiting coal for municipal power will cost nothing and reduce emissions with none of this emissions trading beurocracy that seems to be more and more popular.
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