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backbreaking
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective backbreaking has 1 sense
- backbreaking(s = adj.all) arduous, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome - characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort; "worked their arduous way up the mining valley"; "a grueling campaign"; "hard labor"; "heavy work"; "heavy going"; "spent many laborious hours on the project"; "set a punishing pace"
THESAURUS
backbreaking
Herculean, annoying, arduous, besetting, bothersome, burdensome, crushing, effortful, forced, grueling, hard-earned, hard-fought, heavy, hefty, irksome, killing, labored, laborious, onerous, operose, oppressive, painful, plaguey, punishing, strained, strenuous, toilsome, tough, troublesome, trying, uphill, vexatious, wearisome
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