pegged (away)
verb
as in labored
to devote serious and sustained effort the writer pegged away at his first novel for three years before he felt that it was ready to be published Synonyms & Similar Words
Relevance
- labored
- struggled
- banged away
- worked
- wrought
- sweat blood
- tried
- sweat
- tugged
- sweated blood
- plowed
- travailed
- moiled
- dug (away)
- toiled
- grubbed
- endeavored
- sweated
- drudged
- hustled
- strived
- strove
- slaved
- humped
- plugged
- pitched in
- beavered (away)
- fagged
- strained
- dug in
- knuckled down
- plodded
- slogged
- eked out
- hammered (away)
- attacked
- applied (oneself)
- buckled (down)
- put out
- scratched
- exerted
- essayed
- overexerted
- drove
- exercised
- overworked
- waded
- trudged
- ground (out)
- scrabbled
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- eased (up)
- hanged (around or out)
- let up
- slackened
- broke
- hung (around or out)
- slacked (off)
- hacked (around)
- chilled
- goofed (off)
- loafed
- lounged
- vegged out
- idled
- shirked
- rested
- bummed
- relaxed
- dallied
- lazed
- played
- dillydallied
- reposed
- goldbricked
- footled
- hung
- basked
- unwound
- pottered (around)
- hung about
- lolled
- puttered (around)
- hanged
- fooled around
- goofed (around)
- trifled
- dabbled
- monkeyed (around)
- doodled
- messed around
- fribbled
