ordeal

calvario, prueba

Experiencia muy difícil o angustiosa por la que hay que pasar.

En inglés sencillo: A very difficult or upsetting experience that you have to go through.

• The journey was an ordeal.
• They survived a terrible ordeal at sea.
• Her family helped her through the ordeal.

Cómo se usa: ordeal of doing something (She faced the ordeal of telling her family.)

Sinónimos: trial, trauma

Expresiones frecuentes: terrible ordeal, survive an ordeal, ordeal of something, painful ordeal