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UK
/bˈækbɹeɪkɪŋ/
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[ US /ˈbækˌbɹeɪkɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈbækˌbɹeɪkɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort
worked their arduous way up the mining valley
heavy going
hard labor
heavy work
set a punishing pace
a grueling campaign
spent many laborious hours on the project
How To Use backbreaking In A Sentence
- None of the broken fence palings were really long enough to reach across the gap any more, but after two or three minutes of backbreaking work, I constructed this.
- Now, after thirty days at this backbreaking and endless task, he realised why.
- Ariana suddenly felt exhausted and backbreakingly sad. Beautiful Disaster
- When you put that kind of backbreaking work into changing the narrative of American history -- as Russert and the others did -- you expect to see results from it. John Eskow: Tuesday's Biggest Loser: Tim Russert (And All The Other TV Blowhards)
- And the first resource that's been drained is our military personnel, who have spent the past decade on long, backbreaking deployments. David Broder: War With Iran Will Save Economy, Obama Presidency
- They had taken on a job that is accurately described as backbreaking. Nothing Like It in the World The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869
- Backbreaking work, all that stooping but I had been warned, even discouraged from going.
- These machines would relieve the peasants of their backbreaking labour.
- Editor’s Choice: Moviemaking in Hollywood’s classical period was colossally complex, backbreakingly difficult, obscenely expensive — and it almost always failed. The Reel Thing
- It was a plainly backbreaking labor, even if they made no sound of complaint, and Joe went to lend a hand. EVERVILLE
