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Backbreaking

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Of work, very physically tiring. figuratively

    "A few keen enginemen, such as Driver Rosewarne of York, could coax good work out of them when engaged in heavy East Coast express service, but to most footplate crews, especially firemen, they were rather heartbreaking and backbreaking machines, and gradually were relegated to secondary or fast goods duties."

Adjective
  1. 1
    characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort wordnet

Etymology

From back + breaking.

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