Word "ORDEAL" Definitions:


Part of Speech:
Noun
Definition:
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
Synonyms:
trial by ordeal

Part of Speech:
Noun
Definition:
a severe or trying experience

Crossword Clues for ORDEAL

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Rough time
Traumatic experience (6) The Guardian Quick 07 Jul 2025
Gold transaction is nightmare
Trial or trade (6) Mirror Cryptic 21 Jun 2025
Trauma (6) Mirror Quick 21 Jun 2025
Difficult experience (6) Puzzler 18 Jun 2025
Gruelling experience (6) The Guardian Quick 17 Jun 2025
Nearby alternative to Dover in a trying situation (6)
A trying experience when the frantic old dear lost the dog initially (6)
Unpleasant and prolonged experience (6)
Stem test or transaction (6)
New loader on trial (6)
Tryin experience (6)
Trauma Mirror Quick 28 May 2025
Trial or trade Mirror Cryptic 28 May 2025
Trial or trade Mirror Cryptic 20 May 2025
Trauma Mirror Quick 20 May 2025
Trying experience The Telegraph Cross Atlantic 18 May 2025
Daughter in a role going wrong has unpleasant experience (6)
Rough patch The Telegraph Cross Atlantic 17 May 2025
Horrible experience Mirror Tea Time 14 May 2025
A test in the gold trade
Test gold and distribute (6)
One's trying golden bargain The Times Quick Cryptic 11 Apr 2025
Harrowing event (6)
For the older forced to go through it, a bad experience (6)
A severe or trying experience. (6)
Difficult experience Mirror Tea Time 08 Mar 2025
Alternative to trade is a trial (6)
Trying experience or business transaction (6)
For the older, a dreadful time (6)
Horrible experience The Times Concise 07 Feb 2025
Trauma Mirror Quick 05 Feb 2025
A Dr Leo seen at the trial (6)
Trial or trade Mirror Cryptic 05 Feb 2025
Harsh experience Universal 05 Feb 2025
Trial or trade Mirror Cryptic 28 Jan 2025
Trauma Mirror Quick 28 Jan 2025
Trial in Laredo botched The Sun Two Speed 25 Jan 2025
Difficult experience The Sun Two Speed 25 Jan 2025
Test of French in viva voce (6)
Severe trial Thomas Joseph 08 Jan 2025
Otherwise a lot will be following the trial (6)
Trial, tribulation
Two low grades in exam, severe test (6)
Spoken about half of debt struggle (6)
Difficult process if not with agreement (6)
It's a trying experience, changing characters that are old (6)
Hardship from gold contract (6)
Spoken examination of French inside is a trying experience (6)
Trial or trade Mirror Cryptic 08 Dec 2024
Trauma Mirror Quick 08 Dec 2024
Distressing experience in exam, receiving low grades The Telegraph Toughie 05 Dec 2024
Leo needs a doctor! Been through such a trial!
Test valuable mineral before ending agreement (6)
A severe trial or a bargain (6)
Some loader! What a trial!
Trial or trade Mirror Cryptic 26 Nov 2024
Trial, or compromise (6) Puzzler Cryptic 26 Nov 2024
Trauma Mirror Quick 26 Nov 2024
There's a Dr Leo on trial
Gold transaction becomes a testing experience (6)
To reload by mistake is a trying experience (6)
An exacting experience (6)
Nightmare for force withdrawing treaty (6)
Harrowing experience or transaction (6)
Trial for gold trade?
Distressing experience of motor dealer (6)
Trial or trade Mirror Cryptic 27 Oct 2024
Trauma Mirror Quick 27 Oct 2024
Do real damage to a trial (6)
Outwardly oral test (6)
Severe test brings two low grades in exam (6) Puzzler Cryptic 22 Oct 2024
Difficult experience Premier Sunday 20 Oct 2024
Reload wrongly for a trying experience (6)
Examination of French form included a severe test
LOADER
Trauma Mirror Quick 10 Oct 2024
Trial or trade Mirror Cryptic 10 Oct 2024
Trauma Mirror Quick 06 Oct 2024
Trial or trade Mirror Cryptic 06 Oct 2024
Poor grades gained in exam, a severe test (6)
Severe test or transaction (6)
Trying time Newsday 29 Sep 2024
Extended trial Newsday 27 Sep 2024
Tough time for Rod, drunk on bad ale (6)
It's hard to go through gold and be a trader (6)
Alternatively, distribute cards for a trial(6)
Tough road to hoe (RELOAD anagram) (6)
Agonizing experience Wall Street Journal 14 Sep 2024
Difficulty, trouble
Do real results come from such a testing experience?
Trial or trade Mirror Cryptic 03 Sep 2024
Trauma Mirror Quick 03 Sep 2024
Not fantastic entertaining Duke's circle at first - horrible experience!
Horrifying experience Commuter 29 Aug 2024
Trial, or compromise (6) Puzzler Cryptic 27 Aug 2024
Trial or trade Mirror Cryptic 25 Aug 2024
Ring Republican leader to get Dole out for trial The Times Sunday Cryptic 25 Aug 2024
Trauma Mirror Quick 25 Aug 2024
Difficult experience Mirror Tea Time 16 Aug 2024
Exam covering is a struggle (6)
Severe test of French in exam
Severe trial The Sun Two Speed 16 Jul 2024
Difficult experience in gold trade The Sun Two Speed 16 Jul 2024
Exam without notes becomes severe test
Tough event Mirror Quick 29 Jun 2024
Trial or trade Mirror Cryptic 29 Jun 2024
A trying experience or contract (6)
...it is a tribulation to reload perhaps (6)
Something difficult to go through (6)
Exacting experience (6)
Regularly appears in court, due early for trial (6)
Anguish or agreement (6)
Affliction, torment
For eccentric, older, a difficult experience
A role in shift around day? It's unpleasant experience (6)
Terrible trial (6) Puzzler 17 May 2024
Gruelling experience The Times Sunday Concise 12 May 2024
Trouble, suffering
Severe trial or test (6)
Severe or testing experience Mirror Classic 19 Apr 2024
Tough going for board after head of finance sacked (6)
Poor grades gained in exam that's a severe test (6)
Severe test or trial (6)
Are old dances a challenge? (6)
Trial or trade Mirror Cryptic 10 Apr 2024
Trauma Mirror Quick 10 Apr 2024
Difficult experience New York Times 09 Apr 2024
To reload incorrectly can be a trying experience (6)
Trying experience The Times Concise 04 Apr 2024
The French rode to the trial
Stern test or transaction (6)
Trouble, trial
Do real results come from such a stern test? (6)
Severe trial The Telegraph Quick 23 Mar 2024
A trying experience (6)
Trial or trade Mirror Cryptic 16 Mar 2024
Trauma Mirror Quick 16 Mar 2024
Trial or trade Mirror Cryptic 13 Mar 2024
Trauma Mirror Quick 13 Mar 2024
Trying experience Universal 11 Mar 2024
Troubling time
Trial or trade Mirror Cryptic 05 Mar 2024
Trauma Mirror Quick 05 Mar 2024
Trial The Times Concise 25 Feb 2024
Trying time Newsday 25 Feb 2024
Harrowing trial
Test an alternative sort of timber
Spoken about case for defence making trial (6)
Spoken about case for defence making trial The Telegraph Toughie 15 Feb 2024
Tough go LA Times Daily 11 Feb 2024
Difficult experience Mirror Classic 08 Feb 2024
Trial or trade Mirror Cryptic 04 Feb 2024
Trauma Mirror Quick 04 Feb 2024
Stressful experience or transaction (6)
Time of suffering Puzzler Backwords 28 Jan 2024
Face a severe trial, or trade in (6)
Trying experience (6) Puzzler 11 Jan 2024
A tough time struggling to reload?
Trial of alternative way of giving out cards (6)
Tough trial Premier Sunday 24 Dec 2023
Trial and tribulation (6)
Big, big test
Making an awful din, a Scotsman with a foreigner (6)
The severe trial of some old era
Bit of a challenge
Trying time Newsday 29 Oct 2023
Difficult experience Newsday 17 Oct 2023
Trial said to include case for defence The Guardian Cryptic 12 Oct 2023
Unpleasant or arduous experience The Times Concise 19 Aug 2023
Grueling experience Universal 16 May 2023
Trying experience The Guardian Quick 29 Mar 2023
Reload (anag.) The Guardian Quick 16 Mar 2023
Bad experience USA Today 16 Jan 2023
Nightmare New York Times 15 Jan 2023
Severe trial Thomas Joseph 03 Jan 2023
Flying a commercial airline, often New York Times 07 Dec 2022
Trial of alternative timber The Guardian Cryptic 02 Nov 2022
Tribulation Eugene Sheffer 01 Oct 2022
Suffering or understanding The Telegraph Cryptic 23 Sep 2022
Stressful experience getting low grades in exam The Times Cryptic 12 Sep 2022
Trying time Newsday 09 Sep 2022
Arduous experience in gold trade The Telegraph Cryptic 22 Jun 2022
Stressful experience Universal 04 Jun 2022
Trying experience The Telegraph Quick 02 May 2022
Difficult experience Newsday 29 Mar 2022
Tough going Newsday 27 Mar 2022
Nightmare of a situation USA Today 17 Mar 2022
Tribulation Eugene Sheffer 18 Feb 2022
Adore novel following K in The Trial Irish Times Crosaire 01 Feb 2022
Big test; torture The Guardian Speedy 09 Jan 2022
Painful experience The Times Concise 09 Dec 2021
Cook roe with dal. It can be trying!
Testing experience Irish Times Simplex 19 Aug 2021
Freeloader's suffering
Odysseus' journey, for example LA Times Daily 14 Jun 2021
Odysseus' journey, for example The Washington Post 14 Jun 2021
Trial in old era, disorderly The Telegraph Cryptic 13 Jun 2021
Trial The Telegraph Quick 27 May 2021
Trial The Guardian Speedy 25 Apr 2021
Trying experience in gold trade The Telegraph Cryptic 12 Apr 2021
Herculean undertaking New York Times 31 Mar 2021
Severe or trying experience Irish Times Simplex 25 Mar 2021
Adore novel following K in The Trial Irish Times Crosaire 09 Feb 2021
Testing experience Irish Times Simplex 29 Jan 2021
Difficult experience The Telegraph Quick 25 Jan 2021
Trying experience with nothing right about transaction
2020, for many LA Times Daily 03 Jan 2021
2020, for many The Washington Post 03 Jan 2021
. Men make drugs available for rigorous trial
Trial one undergoes as alternative to plea bargain? The Telegraph Toughie 11 Nov 2020
Distressing experience in Delaware during exam
Alternative arrangement for trial The Telegraph Cryptic 26 Oct 2020
Hardly a walk in the park Newsday 23 Oct 2020
The Goldwood Trial? The Sun Two Speed 19 Aug 2020
Difficult experience The Sun Two Speed 19 Aug 2020
Ring road by Ealing half closed off? Nightmare!
Difficult situation of French in language exam
Agreement backing troops in difficult situation
Painful experience The Telegraph Quick 11 May 2020
Nothing genuine about Democrat's trial The Telegraph Cryptic 08 Apr 2020
Trying experience New York Times 24 Mar 2020
Trial in Laredo botched The Sun Two Speed 14 Mar 2020
Horrific experience The Times Concise 10 Mar 2020
Vocal about Democrat Pierce's extreme hardship
Trial over agreement involving Republican The Telegraph Cryptic 20 Feb 2020
Nightmare of French exam is overwhelming
Severe trial The Sun Two Speed 31 Jan 2020
Hard trial Premier Sunday 29 Dec 2019
Moving long-distance, e.g Universal 11 Nov 2019
Nightmarish experience Wall Street Journal 06 Nov 2019
Distressing experience The Telegraph Quick 31 Oct 2019
Severe trial Thomas Joseph 30 Oct 2019
Trial; nightmare The Telegraph Quick 30 Oct 2019
Test done internally, not on trauma
Hard time in gold trade The Sun Two Speed 07 Sep 2019
Unpleasant experience
Severe test — exam without notes
Turns up young man holding onto energy finds brief quarrel an unpleasant experience Irish Times Crosaire 27 Jun 2019
Harrowing experience in gold trade
Turns up, the Foreign Editor is writing nothing to do with difficult trial Irish Times Crosaire 01 May 2019
Struggle of French in language exam?
Trying experience of boy turning up during exam
. Trouble is, nothing honest earns money!
Tough time in gold trade The Sun Two Speed 12 Mar 2019
Nothing right with bargain in trial
Severe trial The Times Concise 21 Nov 2018
Nothing right with bargain in trial
Painful experience/arrangement
Testing experience The Telegraph Quick 05 Oct 2018
Harrowing experience New York Times 26 Sep 2018
Nothing legitimate about duke's trial
Nightmare of poor grades in exam The Telegraph Cryptic 15 Aug 2018
Taxing experience The Washington Post Sunday 05 Aug 2018
Severe trial Universal 20 Jul 2018
It's hell on earth for Slav thrown out of El Salvador Irish Times Crosaire 26 Jun 2018
Major hassle Universal 24 May 2018
Agreement following otherwise unpleasant experience
Torture alternative: to bargain
Poisonous seed able to be distributed in Oregon valley (10, two words)
Severe test, examination involving study, mostly The Sun Two Speed 20 Feb 2018
Agreement following otherwise unpleasant experience
Unpleasant experience of gold trade The Telegraph Cryptic 07 Feb 2018
Hardship The Telegraph Quick 30 Jan 2018
Harrowing experience
Severe trial
Major hassle
Struggle with gold and wood
Trying experience in centre of historical Kent town
Climbing Mount Everest, e.g New York Times 01 Oct 2017
Difficult experience Newsday 19 Sep 2017
Tough slog New York Times 27 Jul 2017
Deal or move out of painful experience Irish Times Crosaire 17 Jul 2017
Adore model first to leave baptism of fire Irish Times Crosaire 24 Jun 2017
Trial of alternative way to give out cards
Boot camp, to many USA Today 03 Jun 2017
Traumatic experience of Parisian entering exam
Soldiers hand out painful experience The Telegraph Cryptic 10 May 2017
Trying experience as alternative to agreement
Hell week, e.g New York Times 16 Apr 2017
Severe test of French in examination
Trial uncovered work transaction
Trying time Universal 07 Feb 2017
Hell week, e.g.
Boot camp, to many
Tough slog
Climbing Mount Everest, e.g.
Trying experience Universal 17 Dec 2016
Ancient form of trial or treatment The Telegraph Toughie 24 Nov 2016
Fraternity hell night, say USA Today 19 Nov 2016
Painful experience The Times Concise 17 Nov 2016
It's no picnic The Washington Post 12 Nov 2016
Test gold over wood
Traffic added to servicemen's anguish
Trial involving gold trade
Trying experience Family Time 19 Jun 2016
Long trial Premier Sunday 12 Jun 2016
Gold transaction is a difficult time
Trial Thomas Joseph 05 Apr 2016
Difficult trial Premier Sunday 03 Apr 2016
Gold trade suffering The Times Cryptic 29 Mar 2016
Trial Eugene Sheffer 23 Mar 2016
Test gold before transaction
Trying experience The Telegraph Quick 26 Feb 2016
French preposition in oral test
Ancient method of trial, or coming to agreement
First three characters in 25 across lose head with enthusiasm for torture Irish Times Crosaire 12 Jan 2016
Difficult trial Jonesin 29 Dec 2015
Baptism by fire USA Today 25 Dec 2015
Starts to detest examiner during verbal test
Test gold before transaction The Telegraph Cryptic 07 Sep 2015
Difficult experience Universal 05 Sep 2015
Baptism of fire Universal 30 Aug 2015
Long painful experience The Times Concise 12 Jun 2015
Painful experience Irish Times Simplex 04 Apr 2015
Poor grades in exam, a trying experience
Severe experience USA Today 02 Mar 2015
Unpleasant experience, sticking gold on to wood
Trying experience in old wood across river The Telegraph Cryptic 03 Feb 2015
Traveling around the holidays, maybe New York Times 04 Jan 2015
Baptism by fire
Traveling around the holidays, maybe
Baptism of fire
Difficult experience
Severe experience
Men coming to agreement in a trying situation
Tough test
Big test
Tough time
Kidnapping, e.g.
Difficult experience
Difficult experience
No picnic
Tough time
Major hassle
Tough road to hoe
Grueling experience
Severe test
Baptism by fire
Tough grind
Trying experience
Trying experience
Terrible trial
Trying test
Experience you might want to forget
Extended trial
Time of tribulation
Tough row to hoe
Fraternity initiation ritual, e.g.
Tough row to hoe
No walk in the park
Trying experience
Tough row to hoe
Boot camp, as a rule
Trying period
Severe test
Tough test
Tough test
Tough trial
Trying experience
Tribulation
Trier of men's souls
Difficult trial
Grueling experience
Trying experience
No picnic
Trying period
It's no picnic
It's no picnic
Difficult trial
Trial
Medieval method of trial
Tough row to hoe
Test of one's mettle
Trial
Harrowing experience
It's trying
Big test
Trying experience
Bad piano recital, for one
Difficult experience
Difficult trial
Terrible trial
Tough period
No picnic
No picnic
Trying time
Trying experience
Difficult challenge
Tribulation
Trial
Tribulation
Difficult test or agreement (6)
Trying experience
Trial by fire
Tough row to hoe
Baptism by fire, for example
Grueling experience
Trying experience
Tough time
Trying experience
Harrowing experience
Painful experience
Tough sledding
Tough period
Difficult test
Big test
Tough time
Boot camp, typically
Trial
Baptism of fire
Severe trial
Trial
Frat initiation, maybe
Trial
Severe trial
Grueling test
Tough time
Baptism of fire
The gauntlet
Severe test
Tough going
Trying time
Severe test
Trial
Terrible experience
Trying time
Difficult time
Feverel's trial
Severe trial
Meredith's "The ___ of Richard Feverel"
Trier of men's souls
Gantlet
The worst kind of test
Trying experience.
Trying time.
Old trial device.
Drawn-out battle
Novel by Nevil Shute.
Feverel's burden
Difficult task
Trial.
Ancient method of trial.
How witches were tried.
Putting on a benefit, for instance.
Ancient form of trial.
Severe trial.
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