Man may be freed from backbreaking labor by the products of scientific technology.
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Backbreaking
Synonyms for "backbreaking" (47 found)
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Closest matches (10)
Adjective(1 words)
Strong matches (14)
Related words (23)
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2 entriesTranslations
9 translations across 6 languages.
Finnish
1 entries- uuvuttava adj (of work, very physically tiring)
French
1 entries- éreintant adj (of work, very physically tiring)
Hungarian
2 entries- fárasztó adj (of work, very physically tiring)
- kimerítő adj (of work, very physically tiring)
Icelandic
2 entries- erfiður adj (of work, very physically tiring)
- lýjandi adj (of work, very physically tiring)
Italian
2 entries- estenuante adj (of work, very physically tiring)
- massacrante adj (of work, very physically tiring)
Polish
1 entries- arcytrudny adj (of work, very physically tiring)
Sample sentences
6 total sentences available.
It's backbreaking work.
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Thirty-year-old Aslima Khan is determined to educate her three daughters. The reason – to ensure they can escape her own life's experience of backbreaking drudgery.
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The original Taj Mahal, adorned with Rajasthan marble, Chinese crystal, Tibetan turquoise and silver from Ceylon, was made with backbreaking manual labor over 12 years.
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