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back-breaking

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back-breaking
adjective exhausting, hard, difficult, wearing, tiring, draining, punishing, crippling, fatiguing, wearying, gruelling, debilitating, strenuous, arduous, laborious, toilsome Many months of back-breaking work still face them.
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back-breaking [ˈbækbreɪkɪŋ] ADJ → deslomador, matador
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Their brown skin showed through the rents of their shirts; and the two small bunches of half-naked, tattered men went on bowing from the waist to each other in their back-breaking labour, up and down, absorbed, with no time for a glance over the shoulder at the help that was coming to them.
The Mirror of the Sea by Conrad, Joseph View in context
I had managed to bail all the water out of the boat with cupped hands, ending by mopping the balance up with my handkerchief--a slow and back-breaking procedure; thus I had made a comparatively dry place for the girl to lie down low in the bottom of the boat, where the sides would protect her from the night wind, and when at last she did so, almost overcome as she was by weakness and fatigue, I threw my wet coat over her further to thwart the chill.
The Land That Time Forgot by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
I jumped down and gave another ten minutes to the back-breaking work of carrying more boulders from the water to the wall.
Dead Men Tell No Tales by Hornung, E. W. View in context
 
 
 
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