| 单词 | backbreaking |
| 释义 | backbreaking (once / 73871 pages) adj When something is backbreaking it requires a lot of physically difficult work. You'll be exhausted after a long day of backbreaking work on a farm. Backbreaking work doesn't literally break your back, but it will probably make it ache, which explains the origin of this adjective. Digging ditches, moving furniture, and hours of harvesting vegetables are all examples of backbreaking work. You can also spell backbreaking as a hyphenated word too: back-breaking. WORD FAMILYbackbreaking USAGE EXAMPLESSubject to hours of backbreaking labor, some of the fishermen began finding it hard to breathe. Washington Times(Dec 15, 2016) But his biggest issue as a rookie was fumbling, and he lost a backbreaking red zone fumble during a loss in Detroit seven weeks ago. Washington Post(Dec 09, 2016) There was no backbreaking run this time in the Clippers’ latest loss, only a gradual run for the other team. Los Angeles Times(Dec 05, 2016) adj characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort Syn arduous, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome effortful requiring great physical effort |
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