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Definition

difficult — especially requiring great effort over an extended period of time

At last, they won their long and arduous fight for independence.

arduous = difficult

She undertook the arduous work of caring for twins.

arduous = difficult

I appreciate your willingness after these six arduous days to remain here.

arduous = difficult

It was a brief resting period between the exacting and arduous planting season and the equally exacting but light-hearted month of harvests.
Chinua Achebe -- Things Fall Apart

arduous = difficult

My dear guardian, with the assistance of Miss Prism, has the arduous task of looking after me.
Oscar Wilde -- The Importance of Being Earnest

arduous = difficult

being a commercial traveller is arduous but without travelling I couldn't earn my living.
Franz Kafka -- Metamorphosis

arduous = difficult

They worked their arduous way up the mining valley.

arduous = difficult

I can think of no reason to let go of the hold we now have on this arduous an enterprise.
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, & John Jay -- The Federalist Papers — Modern English Edition 2
The rest of us must be contented with a fair, but a less arduous, goal.
E.M. Forster -- A Room With A View
It was arduous work and neither of them knew the technique.
Pat Frank -- Alas, Babylon
They were arduous, for he had to attend on an average three confinements a day.
W. Somerset Maugham -- Of Human Bondage
The white rectangle moved with the busy arduous ants.
Michael Ondaatje -- Running in the Family
Then Shefford divined why the Navajo had made that arduous climb.
Zane Grey -- The Rainbow Trail
Even this simple conversation seemed impossibly arduous.
Nicholas Sparks -- The Last Song
But now, he turned against the stream in which he had drifted so short a while before, and began swimming arduously back against the current.
Margaret Mitchell -- Gone with the Wind
The method of searching the swamps is simple yet arduous.
Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard -- Killing Lincoln
We did not consider going to British-controlled Palestine as the life there would be too arduous for my parents.
Leon Leyson -- The Boy on the Wooden Box
What had he taken this arduous climb for?
Zane Grey -- The Lone Star Ranger
The leg I'd run had been arduous and long, but there were still others—more questions and answers—more key witnesses, many more hours to Gail's day.
Alice Sebold -- Lucky
Her guests reported an arduous ride down the mountain, with only one incident to lend excitement.
Zane Grey -- The Light of Western Stars

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