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What does backbreaking mean?

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Adjective
  1. (figuratively) Of work, very physically tiring.
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I was imprisoned nearby, then transferred to Flossenbürg to do backbreaking work at a quarry.
For many millions the tools and technology they use are as old as their toil is backbreaking.
Below dark cliffs and mossy overhangs lay olive groves, entire slopes terraced with backbreaking plots of retaining walls and water channels.
The work I did in the camp was so backbreaking that I lost tissue in my spine.
An officer can order them to provide a month of backbreaking, uncompensated labour for the local battalion.
Long ago, laundry tasks simply required a tub, washboard, clothesline and backbreaking labor.

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