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1. (adj.) backbreaking
demanding great effort, endurance, etc.:
a backbreaking job.
Etymology: (1780–90)
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1. (adj) arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome
characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort
"worked their arduous way up the mining valley"; "a grueling campaign"; "hard labor"; "heavy work"; "heavy going"; "spent many laborious hours on the project"; "set a punishing pace"
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Sense: (of a task etc) very difficult or requiring very hard work
Digging the garden is a backbreaking job.
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 Afrikaans: uitputtend |
 Arabic: قاصِم للظَّهْر |
 Bulgarian: много изморителен |
 Brazilian: pesado |
 Czech: vyčerpávající |
 German: erschöpfend |
 Danish: opslidende |
 Greek: εξαντλητικός, εξαιρετικά |
 Spanish: deslomador, pesado |
 Estonian: kontimurdev |
 Farsi: شاق؛ کمرشکن |
 Finnish: raskas |
 French: éreintant |
 Hebrew: מְפָרֵך |
 Croatian: težak |
 Hungarian: kimerítő |
 Indonesian: berat sekali, sangat mele |
 Icelandic: lÿjandi, erfiður |
 Italian: massacrante |
 Japanese: 骨の折れる |
 Korean: 매우 힘든 |
 Lithuanian: varginantis, alinantis |
 Latvian: mokošs; smags (par darbu) |
 Malay: berat |
 Dutch: zwaar |
 Norwegian: slitsom |
 Polish: wyczerpujący |
 Persian: شاق؛ کمرشکن |
 Pashto: ستونځمن |
 Portuguese: pesado |
 Romanian: istovitor |
 Russian: изнурительный |
 Slovak: vyčerpávajúci |
 Slovenian: utrudljiv |
 Serbian: iscrpljujući |
 Swedish: hård, slitsam |
 Thai: ต้องใช้ความพยายามอย่างมาก |
 Turkish: çok zor, çok yorucu |
 Taiwanese: 繁重的，累人的 |
 Ukrainian: виснажливий |
 Urdu: تھکا دینے والا ، کمر توڑ |
 Vietnamese: mệt mỏi |
 Chinese: 非常辛劳的，艰苦繁重的 |
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