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Ordeal
01
épreuve, supplice, calvaire
a difficult or painful experience, often one that lasts long and requires great effort and endurance to overcome
Example
Climbing the mountain was an ordeal that tested their physical and mental limits.
The ordeal of losing her job was followed by months of uncertainty and struggle.
The survivors described their ordeal in detail during the interview.
02
épreuve, ordeal
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
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