backbreaking (redirected from backbreaker)

back·break·ing  (bkbrkng)

adj.

Demanding great exertion; arduous and exhausting.

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backbreaker n.

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Adj.

1.

backbreaking - 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" arduous, grueling, gruelling, laborious, operose, toilsome, punishing, hard, heavy effortful - requiring great physical effort