An ordeal is a difficult and sometimes harrowing experience. Someone who is taken hostage would go through an ordeal. The experience may be so unpleasant and painful that the person involved may not expect to come out of the ordeal in one piece. However, the noun ordeal may also be used to stress how complicated or time-consuming a particular task was:
"Obtaining a residency permit really was an ordeal".
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