English-Portuguese translations for ordeal

• calvário
  Além disso, com esta proposta restritiva, a vida familiar corre o risco de se tornar um calvário, em especial para as mulheres. Furthermore, with this restrictive proposal, family life is in danger of becoming an ordeal, especially for women.
  Eu não precisaria de dois minutos ou de duas horas, mas de dois dias inteiros para descrever o verdadeiro calvário sofrido pelas raparigas jovens e mulheres no Paquistão. I would need not two minutes or two hours but two whole days to describe the ordeal suffered by young girls and women in Pakistan.
  Como estava completamente inocente, veio a ser absolvido em processo de recurso, mas não sem antes sofrer o terrível calvário de meses de prisão longe da família e a perda definitiva do seu emprego.As he was totally innocent he was acquitted on appeal, but not before suffering the horrendous ordeal of months in prison far from his family and the permanent loss of his job.
• ordália

Definition of ordeal

• A painful or trying experience
• A trial in which the accused was subjected to a dangerous test , divine authority deciding the guilt of the accused

Related words

• ordeal by fire
• ordeal of the cross
• trial by ordeal