testing

Etymology

adj

  1. Difficult; tough.
    England have now gone four games without a win at Wembley, their longest sequence without a victory in 30 years, and still have much work to do to reach Euro 2012 as they prepare for a testing trip to face Bulgaria in Sofia in September. June 4, 2011, Phil McNulty, “England 2 - 2 Switzerland”, in BBC

noun

  1. The act of conducting a test; trialing, proving.
    The wilderness testings of Jesus prepare him for ministry in which such temptations and shortcuts will recur. 2011, Emerson B. Powery, Immersion Bible Studies: Luke

verb

  1. present participle and gerund of test

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