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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
Climbing the mountain was an ordeal that tested their physical and mental limits.
Escalar a montanha foi um suplício que testou seus limites físicos e mentais.
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
