peg (away)
verb
as in to labor
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
- labor
- struggle
- work
- dig (away)
- bang away
- sweat blood
- slave
- strive
- sweat
- beaver (away)
- tug
- try
- plow
- grub
- toil
- endeavor
- hump
- hustle
- travail
- strain
- fag
- drudge
- pitch in
- plug
- moil
- knuckle down
- buckle (down)
- plod
- dig in
- attack
- slog
- apply (oneself)
- hammer (away)
- exercise
- essay
- scratch
- drive
- overwork
- put out
- eke out
- overexert
- exert
- scrabble
- wade
- grind (out)
- trudge
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- ease (up)
- hang (around or out)
- hack (around)
- break
- slacken
- goof (off)
- slack (off)
- let up
- bum
- lounge
- idle
- chill
- rest
- shirk
- loaf
- veg out
- relax
- footle
- goof (around)
- laze
- play
- dillydally
- dally
- repose
- potter (around)
- unwind
- goldbrick
- fool around
- bask
- monkey (around)
- trifle
- loll
- hang about
- mess around
- hang
- putter (around)
- doodle
- dabble
- fribble
- red-shafted flicker
- red-short
- red-shortness
- red-shoul
- red-shouldered hawk
- red-sided dace
- red-spotted purple
- red-stalk aster
- red-stem filaree
- red-stemmed filaree
- red-streaked spider
- red-tailed hawk
- red-tailed tropic bird
- red-tapeism
- red-tapism
- red-throated diver
- red-throated loon
- red-toothed shrew
- red-wat
- red-wat-shod
- red-winged blackbird
- redact
- redacted
- redacting
- redaction