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Ordeal
01
grande tormento
a difficult or painful experience, often one that lasts long and requires great effort and endurance to overcome
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The long wait at the hospital felt like an unbearable ordeal.
La lunga attesa in ospedale sembrava un calvario insopportabile.
02
ordalia, giudizio di Dio
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
