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单词 slog
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slogverb

uk/slɒɡ/us/slɑːɡ/-gg-

slog verb (WORK HARD)

[ I usually + adv/prep ] informal to work hard over a long period, especially doing work that is difficult or boring:

I've been slogging away for days on this essay and I'm still not finished.

[ I + adv/prep ] to travel or move with difficulty, for example through wet, sticky soil or snow, or when you are very tired:

Despite the rain, they slogged on for another six miles.
They slogged up the trail in the rain.
The soldiers slogged through mud.

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Work, working and the workplace

  • a long way to go idiom
  • act as sth 1
  • act as sth
  • all work and no play (makes Jack a dull boy) idiom
  • assignment
  • cabin
  • hold down a job idiom
  • hoop
  • hot desk
  • hot-desking
  • hotelling
  • housekeeping
  • labour
  • slouch
  • spadework
  • stroke
  • sweat
  • sweat over sth
  • swing into action idiom
  • temp

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Moving unsteadily or with difficulty

slog verb (HIT HARD)

[ T ] UK to hit a ball hard and often in an uncontrolled way

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Hitting and beating

  • a bunch of fives idiom
  • a rap on/over the knuckles idiom
  • at-risk
  • bang up sb/sth
  • bashing
  • deck
  • hell
  • kick
  • knock
  • knock sb's block off idiom
  • lay
  • lay sb out
  • licking
  • mess sb up
  • pound
  • pummel
  • put the boot in idiom
  • swing
  • thump
  • whack

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slognoun

uk/slɒɡ/us/slɑːɡ/

slog noun (HARD WORK)

[ S ] informal a period of difficult or tiring effort:

This semester was a long hard slog; I'm glad it's over.
That last hill before the finishing line was a long slog!

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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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slog noun (HARD HIT)

[ C ] UK informal a very hard, and often uncontrolled hit:

And that was a real slog from Kumar.

Thesaurus: synonyms and related words

Hitting and beating

  • a bunch of fives idiom
  • a rap on/over the knuckles idiom
  • at-risk
  • bang up sb/sth
  • bashing
  • deck
  • hell
  • kick
  • knock
  • knock sb's block off idiom
  • lay
  • lay sb out
  • licking
  • mess sb up
  • pound
  • pummel
  • put the boot in idiom
  • swing
  • thump
  • whack

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