Usually means: Extremely difficult, physically very demanding.
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  1. backbreaking: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. backbreaking: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. backbreaking: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. backbreaking: Collins English Dictionary
  5. backbreaking: Vocabulary.com
  6. backbreaking: Wordnik
  7. backbreaking: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. backbreaking: Wiktionary
  9. backbreaking: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. backbreaking: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. backbreaking: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. backbreaking: Dictionary.com
  13. backbreaking: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. backbreaking: Rhymezone
  15. backbreaking: Free Dictionary
  16. backbreaking: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. backbreaking: Dictionary/thesaurus
  18. backbreaking: Merriam-Webster.com

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  1. backbreaking: Encyclopedia

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adjective:  (figuratively) Of work, very physically tiring.

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