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 Meaning of BACKBREAKING
| Pronunciation: |  | 'bak`breyking 
 
 |  |  WordNet Dictionary |  |  |  |  | Definition: |  | [adj]  characterized by toilsome 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" |  |  |  |  | Websites: |  |  |  |  |  |  | Synonyms: |  | arduous, effortful, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, labourious, punishing, toilsome |  |  |  |     |  |  Thesaurus Terms |  |  |  |  | Related Terms: |  | annoying, arduous, besetting, bothersome, burdensome, crushing, effortful, forced, grueling, hard-earned, hard-fought, heavy, hefty, Herculean, irksome, killing, labored, laborious, onerous, operose, oppressive, painful, plaguey, punishing, strained, strenuous, toilsome, tough, troublesome, trying, uphill, vexatious, wearisome |  |  |  |     |    |  |