backbreaking
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adjective \-ˌbrā-kiŋ\Definition of BACKBREAKING
: extremely arduous, exhausting, or demoralizing : oppressive <backbreaking labor> <backbreaking rents>
— back·break·er \-kər\ noun
See Examples of BACKBREAKING
- <modern machinery has significantly eased the backbreaking work of farming>
First Known Use of BACKBREAKING
1851
Related to BACKBREAKING
- Synonyms
- arduous, Augean, hard, challenging, demanding, difficult, effortful, exacting, formidable, grueling (or gruelling), heavy, hellacious, herculean, killer, laborious, moiling, murderous, pick-and-shovel, rigorous, rough, rugged, severe, stiff, strenuous, sweaty, tall, testing, toilsome, tough, uphill
- Antonyms
- cheap, easy, effortless, facile, light, mindless, simple, soft, undemanding
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