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What does backbreaking mean?

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Adjective
  1. (figuratively) Of work, very physically tiring.
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Today, tourists would not be visiting Egypt were it not for the hard, backbreaking work of the quarrymen so many thousands of years ago.
How many of these working children will have the motivation and physical energy to attend school after hours of backbreaking work?
The new bridge will cut their backbreaking journey to Kandahar by five kilometers.
They, and the man taking their pictures, are snatching moments between bursts of intense, backbreaking work.
The work I did in the camp was so backbreaking that I lost tissue in my spine.
I was imprisoned nearby, then transferred to Flossenbürg to do backbreaking work at a quarry.

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