ordeal

English - Turkish

Definition of ordeal in English Turkish dictionary

{i} çile

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

Bob kendi başına bu çileyi aşmak zorundadır. - Bob has to get through this ordeal on his own.

{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

ordeal by fire

dağlayarak işkence etme

water ordeal

su çile

English - English

Definition of ordeal in English English dictionary: 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; Orbital Rate Display Earth And Lunar; displays the computed local vertical in the pitch axis during Earth or Lunar orbit; 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
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