"soul-crushing" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "more soul-crushing",
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    },
    {
      "form": "most soul-crushing",
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        "superlative"
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "soul-crushingly"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2010, Gayle Soucek, Marshall Field's: The Store That Helped Build Chicago, The History Press, page 17",
          "text": "Some came to get rich on their wits and intellect, others on their strength and brawn, toiling from dawn to dusk in soul-crushing labors.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Douglas A. Van Belle, A Novel Approach to Politics: Introducing Political Science through Books, Movies, and Popular Culture, SAGE",
          "text": "And for an introduction to politics course, zombies represent the threat posed by a textbook that is so chock full of soul-crushing boredom that it will smother the mind and rot the flesh right off of students' faces.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Kristina Lloyd, Thrill Seeker, Black Lace",
          "text": "Oh, it was nothing compared to the immediate, soul-crushing loneliness I'd experienced when Baxter and I had split.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Demeaning, boring, disheartening."
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        [
          "Demeaning",
          "demeaning"
        ],
        [
          "boring",
          "boring"
        ],
        [
          "disheartening",
          "disheartening"
        ]
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "demeaning, boring",
          "word": "musertava"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "soul-crushing"
}

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  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "soul-crushingly"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more soul-crushing",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most soul-crushing",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "soul-crushing (comparative more soul-crushing, superlative most soul-crushing)",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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        {
          "ref": "2010, Gayle Soucek, Marshall Field's: The Store That Helped Build Chicago, The History Press, page 17",
          "text": "Some came to get rich on their wits and intellect, others on their strength and brawn, toiling from dawn to dusk in soul-crushing labors.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Douglas A. Van Belle, A Novel Approach to Politics: Introducing Political Science through Books, Movies, and Popular Culture, SAGE",
          "text": "And for an introduction to politics course, zombies represent the threat posed by a textbook that is so chock full of soul-crushing boredom that it will smother the mind and rot the flesh right off of students' faces.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Kristina Lloyd, Thrill Seeker, Black Lace",
          "text": "Oh, it was nothing compared to the immediate, soul-crushing loneliness I'd experienced when Baxter and I had split.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Demeaning, boring, disheartening."
      ],
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          "boring",
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        ],
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          "disheartening",
          "disheartening"
        ]
      ]
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  "translations": [
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "demeaning, boring",
      "word": "musertava"
    }
  ],
  "word": "soul-crushing"
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