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单词 bangs away
释义

bang away

verb

banged away; banging away; bangs away

intransitive verb

1
: to work with determined effort
students banging away at their homework
2
: to attack persistently
police are going to keep banging away at you Erle Stanley Gardner

Synonyms

  • beaver (away)
  • dig (away)
  • drudge
  • endeavor
  • fag
  • grub
  • hump
  • hustle
  • labor
  • moil
  • peg (away)
  • plod
  • plow
  • plug
  • slave
  • slog
  • strain
  • strive
  • struggle
  • sweat
  • toil
  • travail
  • tug
  • work
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Example Sentences

the design team has been banging away at that project for months

Word History

First Known Use

1818, in the meaning defined at sense 1

bangs away

verb

present tense third-person singular of bang away
as in struggles
to devote serious and sustained effort the design team has been banging away at that project for months

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • struggles
  • labors
  • works
  • moils
  • slaves
  • tugs
  • sweats blood
  • strives
  • beavers (away)
  • pegs (away)
  • travails
  • plows
  • sweats
  • endeavors
  • tries
  • digs (away)
  • grubs
  • toils
  • humps
  • drudges
  • fags
  • strains
  • hustles
  • plugs
  • knuckles down
  • pitches in
  • hammers (away)
  • plods
  • overexerts
  • buckles (down)
  • slogs
  • attacks
  • digs in
  • ekes out
  • exercises
  • essays
  • scratches
  • applies (oneself)
  • grinds (out)
  • drives
  • exerts
  • overworks
  • puts out
  • scrabbles
  • wades
  • trudges

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • eases (up)
  • hangs (around or out)
  • slacks (off)
  • breaks
  • lets up
  • goldbricks
  • slackens
  • dillydallies
  • hacks (around)
  • goofs (off)
  • chills
  • rests
  • lounges
  • shirks
  • bums
  • lazes
  • idles
  • footles
  • dallies
  • loafs
  • fools around
  • hangs about
  • fribbles
  • messes around
  • relaxes
  • plays
  • goofs (around)
  • potters (around)
  • unwinds
  • veges out
  • hangs
  • reposes
  • monkeys (around)
  • putters (around)
  • basks
  • vegges out
  • lolls
  • doodles
  • dabbles
  • trifles
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