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Arduous
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backbreaking
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Word definitions for backbreaking in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES backbreaking (= very tiring ) ▪ Clearing the garden was slow, backbreaking work. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Now, after thirty days at this backbreaking and endless task, he realised why. ▪ Training for the University ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. (context figuratively English) Of work, very physically tiring.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. characterized by toilsome 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"; ...
Usage examples of backbreaking.
For reasons entirely unclear to Kerry, Thomas contrived every despicable, backbreaking chore he could throw at him, from maneuvering an ancient plow behind two old oxen, to duping him into climbing to the top of Din Fallon in search of a haggis nest.
On the other hand he was not sure how much pleasure she had derived from this consuming, backbreaking endeavor.
Oysters had been a hard life, backbreaking and dangerous and dirt-poor.
It had taken her seven years of hard, backbreaking dish washing to finally afford a new dress.
All the beds now had been utilised for food, and Donald had learned with backbreaking patience the art of growing it.
After three long years of backbreaking work the plantation was finally self-sufficient, and with a competent overseer it would remain so until he returned from Virginia.
And when we arrive, we face backbreaking labor and toil to rebuild our homes and businesses.
It was backbreaking work that left him little energy to do anything more than sleep.
Farm families wanted their children to attend universities and seek opportunities the big city offered that would free them from the backbreaking work on the farms.
Streets became deserted since Jews caught walking would be seized and forced to work at meaningless, backbreaking tasks like digging ditches or filling puddles of water with sand.
The work was less backbreaking and more challenging, if not physically, then cerebrally.
Three months ago Strone had volunteered for the backbreaking work of laying inductance coils and alloy rails for the transportation link between Bondalar and Carsus holdings.
His squat mother had developed sloped shoulders and biceps as large as hams from her own backbreaking labor.
At the mere mention of the backbreaking labor, Kalliana blanched and looked over at Troy.
I mean, sure, it knocked the stuff out of me, scared the soul out one ear and back in the other, hit my wind and tore my gut, broke the bones and shook the wits, but, but, but, wife, but, but, but, clear sweet Meg, Meggy, Megan, I wish you were here, it might tamp the tobacco tars out of your half-ass lungs and bray the mossy graveyard backbreaking meanness from your marrow.