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English noun: ordeal

1. ordeal (event) a severe or trying experience


Broader (hypernym)experience

2. ordeal (act) a primitive method of determining a person's guilt or innocence by subjecting the accused person to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under divine control; escape was usually taken as a sign of innocence


Synonymstrial by ordeal


Broader (hypernym)trial









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