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Ordeal
01
terrible experiencia
a difficult or painful experience, often one that lasts long and requires great effort and endurance to overcome
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Climbing the mountain was an ordeal that tested their physical and mental limits.
Escalar la montaña fue un calvario que puso a prueba sus límites físicos y mentales.
The ordeal of losing her job was followed by months of uncertainty and struggle.
El calvario de perder su trabajo fue seguido por meses de incertidumbre y lucha.
02
ordalía, juicio de Dios
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
