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Ordeal
01
prova, calvário
a difficult or painful experience, often one that lasts long and requires great effort and endurance to overcome
informações gramaticais
estado de animacidade
abstrato
composição morfológica
simples
contável
forma plural
ordeals
Exemplos
The long wait at the hospital felt like an unbearable ordeal.
A longa espera no hospital pareceu um suplício insuportável.
02
ordália, juízo de Deus
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
