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Break One's Back

Definition: Break One's Back

Break One's Back

Verb

1. Work very hard, like a slave.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

Synonyms: Break One's Back

Synonyms: buckle down (v), knuckle down (v), slave (v). (additional references)

Synonyms within Context: Break One's Back

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Failure	Limp, halt, hobble, titubate; fall, tumble; lose one's balance; fall to the ground, fall between two stools; flounder, falter, stick in the mud, run aground, split upon a rock; beat one's head against a stone wall, run one's head against a stone wall, knock one's head against a stone wall, dash one's head against a stone wall; break one's back; break down, sink, drown, founder, have the ground cut from under one; get into trouble, get into a mess, get into a scrape; come to grief; (adversity); go to the wall, go to the dogs, go to pot; lick the dust, bite the dust; be defeated; have the worst of it, lose the day, come off second best, lose; fall a prey to; succumb; (submit); not have a leg to stand on.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Modern Translation: Break One's Back

Language		Translations for "break one's back"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Romanian		se speti. (various references)

Spanish		deslomarse. (various references)

Ukrainian		збанкрутувати (be out of business, become bankrupt, bust, go bankrupt, go bust, go into liquidation). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: Break One's Back

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "'-a-a-b-b-c-e-e-k-k-n-o-r-s"
	-4 letters: absorbance, canebrakes.
	-5 letters: anaerobes, backbones, beckoners, breakneck, canebrake.
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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams

5. Bibliography

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