ordeal

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English - Turkish
{i} çile

Halkın içinde konuşmak Tom için bir çileydi. - Speaking in public was an ordeal for Tom.

Bu uzun bir çile olacak. - It'll be a long ordeal.

{i} insana çok sıkıntı çektiren iş, ateşten gömlek
{i} işkence ile sorgulama
çetin sınav
ateşten gömlek
büyük slkıntı
eskiden kullanılan işkence ile yargılama usulü
karakter veya dayanıklılık denemesi
{i} zorlu sınama

Related Terms

ordeal by fire
dağlayarak işkence etme
water ordeal
su çile
English - English
a painful or trying experience
a trial in which the accused was subjected to a dangerous test (such as ducking in water), divine authority deciding the guilt of the accused
anything that severely tests courage, strength, patience, conscience, etc
{n} a trial of innocence by fire or water
If you describe an experience or situation as an ordeal, you think it is difficult and unpleasant. She described her agonising ordeal. a terrible or painful experience that continues for a period of time ordeal of. In customary law, a test of guilt or innocence in which the accused undergoes dangerous or painful tests believed to be under supernatural control. Ordeals by fire or water are the most common. Burns suffered while passing through fire (as in Hindu custom) or rejection (i.e., being buoyed up) by a body of water (as in witch trials) would be regarded as proof of guilt. In ordeal by combat, as in the medieval duel, the victor is said to win not by his own strength but because supernatural powers have intervened on the side of the right
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Any severe trial, or test; a painful experience
An ancient form of test to determine guilt or innocence, by appealing to a supernatural decision, once common in Europe, and still practiced in the East and by savage tribes
It was a fiery ordeal A severe test (See above, No 2 )
a severe or trying experience
Of or pertaining to trial by ordeal
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
{i} trial; trying experience, hardship
ordal

Related Terms

trial by ordeal
: Archaic practice by which a person accused of a crime could prove his innocence by his survival of physically painful tests
trials by ordeal
plural form of trial by ordeal
ordeals
plural of ordeal
terrible ordeal
torment, agony, torture, suffering
water ordeal
Same as Ordeal by water
water ordeal
See the Note under Ordeal, n
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