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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
- Oreck next maintained that many of its challenged statements were nonactionable puffery: (1) the Dyson is “bulky”; (2) the Oreck vacuum emits “no puff” of dust when it is emptied; (3) the Dyson bin emptying process is “messy” and the Dyson filter is “not sanitary” and a “dirty little secret”; and (4) the XL Ultra 4120 weighs “only nine pounds,” while the weight of the DC14 is “backbreaking.” Archive 2009-03-01
- We have a HEAVY pine kingsize bed that pretty much fills the room, a backbreakingly heavy mattress and a three-door wardrobe that is just not going to be funny to move even an inch. Sheepdip Diary Entry
- It was backbreaking, spirit-sucking work, and the book is a litany of the horticultural errors that can cripple a choice crop of kush.
- The Guardians provided seeds, but still, it was backbreaking work! A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
- Moviemaking was colossally complex, backbreakingly difficult, obscenely expensive — and it almost always failed. Toiling in the Dream Factory
- They brought in 1/2 yard of planting mix, hauling it downslope in 5-gallon buckets - backbreaking work, but it paid off.
- Being a wine merchant, I often thought, was not a gentle artistic occupation, but thoroughly backbreakingly physical. PROOF
- The thing that tipped it into "backbreaking" was the 5 pound roll of wrapping paper I slid into the basket at the last minute! Hello hand truck, hello dolly
- It has happened in spades on the Baja and Yucatan peninsulas where foreigners, mostly Americans, have bragged publicly about acquiring beach front properties in places like Tulum and Ensenada for what they considered chump change forcing the locals into federal housing or dismal swamps or the barest of hillside ghettos while inducing a backbreaking increase in their cost of living. Safety in lakeside
- It was backbreaking labor and he wondered if there were enough trees out there to keep the fires going this winter. T2®: THE FUTURE WAR