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Definition of Backbreaking
1. Adjective. Characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort. "Set a punishing pace"
Similar to: Effortful
Derivative terms: Arduousness, Hardness, Heaviness, Labor, Laboriousness, Operoseness, Toilsomeness
Definition of Backbreaking
1. Adjective. (figuratively) Of work, very physically tiring. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Backbreaking
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Backbreaking
Literary usage of Backbreaking
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annual Report by Illinois Farmers' Institute (1916)
"The new housekeeping means scientific dignified effort instead of traditional
backbreaking drudgery; the new housekeeping means leisure time for training ..."
2. Sunset by Southern Pacific Company, Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept (1910)
"Slow, backbreaking work it was clearing the land of trees, brush, stumps and
Indians, but a small plat would furnish with little effort more than enough for ..."
3. Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers by American Institute of Electrical Engineers (1917)
"... but especially organized and disciplined work,—disagreeable, dirty, heartbreaking,
backbreaking, nerve-racking work, but always work. ..."
4. Green Light!: Men of the 81st Troop Carrier Squadron Tell Their Story by Martin Wolfe (1989)
"... weary forced marches over the jagged trails of the Maritime Alps carrying
backbreaking loads, pursuing the enemy that was responsible for those still, ..."
5. Baptist Missionary Magazine by American Baptist Foreign Mission Society (1908)
"Half-naked coolies stream with perspiration as they stagger under backbreaking
burdens, or swing gracefully along under a lighter load. ..."
6. A Son of the Middle Border by Hamlin Garland (1917)
"There was a kind of splendid rivalry in this backbreaking toil—for each sack
weighed ninety pounds. We got tired of wallowing in the straw at last, ..."
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