backbreaking
adjective /ˈbækˌbreɪ.kɪŋ/Definition
› needing a lot of hard, physical effort and making you feel extremely tired: Digging the garden was backbreaking work.Complicated and difficult to doDifficult to understand
(Definition of backbreaking adjective from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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