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backbreaking

adjective as in strenuous

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He held onto the ball — in the end zone — for too long, and afraid he was going to be pulled down for a safety, he threw a backbreaking interception.

Signs of the toxic and backbreaking work the enslaved had to do at the primitive ironmaking site emerged.

Advocates for robotic farming tout increased automation as a step toward improving efficiency while freeing people from monotonous, backbreaking tasks that few laborers want to do.

Today, instead of men performing backbreaking work on creaking machinery, unkempt grass bends in the light breeze.

According to political lore, patriot-Americans do the backbreaking work that keeps the country humming.

It will take some backbreaking investigation to get the whole story, because the files show nothing on any of them.

All they had to look forward to from the D'zertanoj was backbreaking labor and an early death.

The combination of heat, hard, backbreaking work, and the necessity for hurry made haying a particularly fatiguing time.

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On this page you'll find 25 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to backbreaking, such as: arduous, exhausting, grueling, laborious, hard, and punishing.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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