backbreaking — Dizionario inglese

Aggettivo

1. Of work, very physically tiring.

   Uso

   • figurato

   Esempi

   Altri esempi (1)

   A few keen enginemen, such as Driver Rosewarne of York, could coax good work out of them when engaged in heavy East Coast express service, but to most footplate crews, especially firemen, they were rather heartbreaking and backbreaking machines, and gradually were relegated to secondary or fast goods duties.

   Ahead [...] each woman is stooped beneath a backbreaking load of firewood.

Aggettivo

1. characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort

   Sinonimi

   arduousgruelinggruellinghardheavylaboriousoperosepunishingtoilsome

   Esempi

   worked their arduous way up the mining valley

   a grueling campaign

   Altri esempi (5)

   hard labor

   heavy work

   heavy going

   spent many laborious hours on the project

   set a punishing pace