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noun ADJ. long | dreadful, terrible, terrifying VERB + ORDEAL endure, face, go through, suffer, undergo | subject sb to She was subjected to a terrible six-day ordeal. | survive | recover from | be spared PREP. ~ by (often humorous) This is the fourth time the prime minister has faced ordeal by egg (= had eggs thrown at him). | ~ of They were spared the ordeal of giving evidence in court. PHRASES an ordeal at the hands of sb their 20-hour ordeal at the hands of a gunman
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
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ordeal
adjectives
a terrible/dreadful ordeal
• The trial was a dreadful ordeal.
a long ordeal
• After thirteen days, the hostages' long ordeal finally ended.
a terrifying ordeal
• Bruce Gordon has described his terrifying ordeal in a shark attack.
a painful ordeal
(= a very bad or painful experience )
• The treatment she had to go through was a painful ordeal.
verbs
go through an ordeal
( also undergo an ordeal formal ) (= experience something that is very bad or difficult )
• I'd already gone through the ordeal of a divorce once. • The girl will not have to ungergo the ordeal of giving evidence in court.
face an ordeal
• He faced the ordeal of caring for his dying wife.
endure an ordeal
• In his book, he describes how he endured the ordeal of prison life.
survive an ordeal
• The woman survived her ordeal and identified her attacker.
recover from an ordeal
• She is recovering from her ordeal after a bomb went off on the train she was on.
subject somebody to an ordeal
(= make someone suffer something very painful or frightening )
• Simon Collier was subjected to a horrifying ordeal at gunpoint.
spare somebody the ordeal of something
(= not make someone have to do something difficult )
• Thank goodness she was spared the ordeal of surgery.
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