backbreaking
English
Alternative forms
Adjective
backbreaking (comparative more backbreaking, superlative most backbreaking)
- (figuratively) Of work, very physically tiring.
- 2019, Maaza Mengiste , The Shadow King, Canongate Books (2020), page 110:
- Ahead [...] each woman is stooped beneath a backbreaking load of firewood.
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Translations
of work, very physically tiring
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