bone-crushing
Breaking your skeleton
Bone-crushing describes force or pressure so extreme it could break bones: a bone-crushing tackle, a bone-crushing handshake.
The term is almost always hyperbolic—actual bones rarely break.
It extends to anything overwhelmingly intense or exhausting: bone-crushing debt, bone-crushing fatigue.
Secure manual hold
- strengthPower to exert force
- forceStrength or compulsion
- squeezeFirm bilateral compression
- pressureForce upon contact
vise · impact · blow · collision · tackle · hit · slam · power
Loss of dignity
- devastatingCausing severe damage
- overwhelmingIntensely excessive in force
- dominationSupreme authority held
- routOverwhelming one-sided victory
blowout · landslide · annihilation · thrashing · shellacking · massacre · shutout · walloping
grip
Secure manual hold
pressure · vise · impact · blow · collision · tackle · hit · slam · power · might
humiliation
Loss of dignity
- devastatingCausing severe damage
- overwhelmingIntensely excessive in force
- dominationSupreme authority held
rout · blowout · landslide · annihilation · thrashing · shellacking · massacre · shutout · walloping · lopsided
fatigue
Weariness from prolonged exertion
- gruelingExtremely tiring and demanding
- demandingRequiring great effort
- punishingExtremely taxing or severe
draining · backbreaking · arduous · strenuous · relentless · toil · labor · schedule · workload · overtime
frigid
Extremely and intensely cold
icy · numbing · penetrating · harsh · brutal · unforgiving · windchill · subzero · frostbite · hypothermia
bone-crushinguplifting
Emotionally encouraging
heartening · encouraging · light-hearted · trivial · inconsequential
bone, bones, boned, boning, boneless, backbone, fishbone, crush, crushes