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Synonyms of punishing in English:

punishing


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adjective

1‘she went on a punishing schedule of visits to the US’

SYNONYMS
arduous, demanding, taxing, onerous, burdensome, strenuous, rigorous, stressful, trying, severe, cruel, stiff, heavy, hard, difficult, uphill, tough, exhausting, fatiguing, wearying, enervating, debilitating, prostrating, sapping, wearing, draining, tiring, gruelling, grinding, back-breaking, crippling, relentless, unsparing, inexorable
informal killing, murderous
ANTONYMS

easy, effortless