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How to sign: not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure
"a difficult task"; "nesting places on the cliffs are difficult of access"; "difficult times"; "a difficult child"; "found himself in a difficult situation"; "why i;
See also: demanding, effortful
Similiar / Same: difficult
How to sign: characterized by toilsome effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort
"worked their arduous way up the mining valley"; "a grueling campaign"; "hard labor"; "heavy work"; "heavy going"; "spent many laborious hours on the project"; "set a;
Similiar / Same: arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, laborious, toilsome, punishing, heavy
How to sign: unfortunate or hard to bear
"had hard luck"; "a tough break";
Similiar / Same: tough
