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back·break·ing (b

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adj.

Demanding great exertion; arduous and exhausting.

backbreaker n.

backbreaking [ˈbækˌbreɪkɪŋ]

adj

demanding great effort; exhausting

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Adj.

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

Translations

backbreaking [ˈbækˌbreɪkɪŋ] adj (work, task) → massacrante

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