hard labor

hard labor
Synonyms and related words:
arduousness, backbreaking work, burdensomeness, confinement, dismemberment, effortfulness, estrapade, galleys, hard job, hard work, impalement, imprisonment, incarceration, jailing, keelhauling, laboriousness, martyrdom, onerousness, oppressiveness, penal servitude, picketing, railriding, rock pile, strappado, strenuousness, tar-and-feathering, the gantlet, toilsomeness, torment, torture, troublesomeness, uphill work, warm work

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