plough through sth
— phrasal verb with plough UK US plow uk/plaʊ/us/plaʊ/verb [ I or T ]
informal to go through a substance or an area of something with difficulty:
We ploughed through the mud.
to finish reading, eating, or dealing with something with difficulty:
I've got an enormous pile of papers to plough through.
You'll never manage to plough through all that food.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Effort and expending energy
- apply
- assiduous
- be running on empty idiom
- bust a gut idiom
- concentrated
- conscientious
- fight
- jump
- mightily
- mind
- overcompensate
- pains
- painstaking
- painstakingly
- shot
- slugger
- strenuous
- thirsty work
- trial and error
- work up sth
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