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 Translation for 'backbreaking' from English to French
ADJ   backbreaking | more backbreaking | most backbreaking
exhaustif {adj}backbreaking
épuisant {adj} {pres-p}backbreaking [work]
éreintant {adj}backbreaking [work]
crevant {adj} {pres-p} [fam.]backbreaking [work]
usant {adj} [fam.] [travail]backbreaking [work]
occup.
travail {m} éreintant
backbreaking work
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Usage Examples English
  • In Italy, Franco writes in his diary that Fillipo has died due to a heat stroke coupled with twelve years of backbreaking work.
  • Physical effects may also include bone breakage such as backbreaking and cranial cracks, causing future disability, visual and hearing impairment, and mental incapacitation.
  • Unlike the rest of the crew, Rob is well built, having logged many hours of sometimes-backbreaking labor.
  • In spite of "honey-bucket" duty at labor farms or backbreaking work in coal mines at labor camps, Lamb continued to teach.
  • For about 3 years, Syrup16g kept up a backbreaking pace of touring and studio work, consistently releasing more than one album a year and never failing to both tour in support of the albums and appear at major events such as the Rock in Japan Festival and the Fuji Rock Festival.

  • When Hegio finds out from Aristophontes that he has been deceived, he sends Tyndarus to the quarries for backbreaking labor.
  • It follows Elizabeth Ann "Sunny" Ducrow, a pleasant, clever, and driven teenager from the London slums who left her backbreaking factory job to become a stage performer, and later, a successful business owner.
  • After a few months of backbreaking work hauling concrete and other heavy building materials, Piasek and the others from Radom were sent on a cattle car to the nearby Hessental camp, where he worked to maintain German infrastructure -- mainly repairing craters made in German air strips by Allied bombing raids and repairing damaged railroad ties.
  • "Growgirl" is a 2012 book by former actor Heather Donahue about dropping out of Hollywood and moving to a semi-collective society in Nevada County, California's Sierra Mountains called "Nuggettown" to become first a "pot wife" then embrace the "backbreaking, spirit-sucking work" of a cannabis grower.
  • After her father died when she was eight, she was forced to help her mother support the family by working long days performing backbreaking manual labor.

  • In the evenings, after a day of backbreaking work, he taught his students "musar" and Mishnayos.
  • Life on the frontier was hard, clearing land and farming was backbreaking work, and the women had to work right alongside the men even in the hardest work.
  • In California's Santa Clara and San Joaquin Valleys, Filipinos were often assigned to the backbreaking work of cultivating and harvesting asparagus, celery, and lettuce.
  • Mainly poor Chinese immigrants were hired to do this backbreaking reclamation work.
  • He is forced to do backbreaking work, kept half-hungry and is denied water to wash and suffers unimaginably.

  • Not only was the chore backbreaking, but it deprived them of their education which Oppenheim saw as a need for the future.
  • Early in the 3rd quarter, after a Notre Dame punt pinned Purdue at their 3-yard line, WR Taylor Stubblefield beat tight man coverage to catch a 97-yard TD pass for a backbreaking score and 27–3 lead.
  • The blunt, hard-hitting "Ehtesaab" video shows Pakistani children working backbreaking menial jobs, juxtaposed with fictional politicians gorging themselves at five-star hotels.
  • The brothers did backbreaking, muscle-straining work for 10 hours a day at the shops of the Panhandle Division of the Pennsylvania Railroad.
  • Working conditions varied from backbreaking work for young local children, ages 13 and up, to backbreaking exploitation of migrants.

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