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bone-crushing

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bone-crush⋅ing

[bohn-kruhsh-ing]
–adjective
1. powerful or constricting enough to crush one's bones: a bone-crushing handshake.
2. extremely painful, troublesome, costly, etc.: a bone-crushing mortgage.

Origin:
1670–80
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