beavering (away)
verb
as in laboring
to devote serious and sustained effort he's been beavering away at the various courses for his dinner party all day long, hoping to impress his new friends Synonyms & Similar Words
Relevance
- laboring
- struggling
- banging away
- working
- sweating blood
- digging (away)
- pegging (away)
- striving
- trying
- sweating
- tugging
- plowing
- pitching in
- grubbing
- toiling
- slaving
- humping
- hustling
- travailing
- drudging
- endeavoring
- knuckling down
- plugging
- digging in
- hammering (away)
- fagging
- moiling
- plodding
- straining
- eking out
- buckling (down)
- applying (oneself)
- slogging
- attacking
- putting out
- grinding (out)
- driving
- scratching
- exercising
- essaying
- exerting
- overworking
- wading
- overexerting
- scrabbling
- trudging
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- easing (up)
- hanging (around or out)
- letting up
- hacking (around)
- slacking (off)
- goofing (off)
- breaking
- slackening
- chilling
- idling
- lounging
- resting
- shirking
- vegging out
- loafing
- goofing (around)
- puttering (around)
- lazing
- dallying
- pottering (around)
- relaxing
- bumming
- monkeying (around)
- fooling around
- basking
- hanging about
- lolling
- unwinding
- playing
- hanging
- reposing
- trifling
- goldbricking
- dillydallying
- footling
- messing around
- doodling
- dabbling
- fribbling
