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Synonyms & Antonyms of backbreaking
requiring considerable physical or mental effort
- modern machinery has significantly eased the backbreaking work of farming
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- cheap,
- easy,
- effortless,
- facile,
- light,
- mindless,
- simple,
- soft,
- undemanding
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The first known use of backbreaking was in 1766
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