dug (away)
verb
as in labored
to devote serious and sustained effort it took days of digging away at the subject, but he understands it thoroughly now Synonyms & Similar Words
Relevance
- labored
- struggled
- worked
- wrought
- banged away
- tugged
- tried
- plowed
- sweat blood
- moiled
- sweated blood
- dug in
- travailed
- grubbed
- sweat
- humped
- toiled
- endeavored
- beavered (away)
- drudged
- hustled
- pegged (away)
- slaved
- plugged
- strived
- pitched in
- sweated
- strove
- fagged
- strained
- plodded
- knuckled down
- eked out
- slogged
- attacked
- hammered (away)
- put out
- overexerted
- buckled (down)
- scratched
- exerted
- applied (oneself)
- drove
- exercised
- essayed
- overworked
- waded
- trudged
- scrabbled
- ground (out)
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- eased (up)
- hung (around or out)
- broke
- slackened
- hanged (around or out)
- let up
- slacked (off)
- hacked (around)
- chilled
- goofed (off)
- rested
- relaxed
- shirked
- dillydallied
- idled
- bummed
- lounged
- lazed
- loafed
- played
- goldbricked
- footled
- dallied
- basked
- vegged out
- puttered (around)
- hung
- hung about
- pottered (around)
- reposed
- hanged
- fooled around
- unwound
- lolled
- trifled
- dabbled
- goofed (around)
- fribbled
- doodled
- monkeyed (around)
- messed around
- pride of Barbados
- pride of California
- pride of China
- pride of India
- pride of Ohio
- pride of place
- pride of the morning
- pride oneself on
- pride-of-india
- pride-of-the-peak
- prided
- prided herself on
- prideful
- pridefully
- pridefulness
- pridefulnesses
- prideless
- pridelessly
- prides
- prideweed
- prideworthy
- pridian
- priding
- pridingly
- pridy