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Backbreaking

adjective
1.
Characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort.  Synonyms: arduous, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome.  "A grueling campaign" , "Hard labor" , "Heavy work" , "Heavy going" , "Spent many laborious hours on the project" , "Set a punishing pace"






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"Backbreaking" Quotes from Famous Books



... weeks of an Earthworm's life at Space Academy are filled with never-ending physical training and conditioning to meet the rigors of rocket flight and life on distant planets. And under the grueling pressure of fourteen-hour days, filled with backbreaking exercises and long forced marches, very few of the boys can find anything more desirable ...
— Stand by for Mars! • Carey Rockwell



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