pegging (away)
verb
as in struggling
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
- struggling
- laboring
- banging away
- working
- sweating blood
- digging (away)
- beavering (away)
- striving
- trying
- sweating
- pitching in
- tugging
- plowing
- grubbing
- toiling
- travailing
- humping
- digging in
- slaving
- endeavoring
- hustling
- plugging
- drudging
- hammering (away)
- knuckling down
- fagging
- eking out
- moiling
- straining
- plodding
- buckling (down)
- applying (oneself)
- slogging
- attacking
- putting out
- grinding (out)
- scratching
- driving
- exercising
- essaying
- exerting
- overworking
- wading
- overexerting
- scrabbling
- trudging
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- easing (up)
- hanging (around or out)
- letting up
- hacking (around)
- slacking (off)
- goofing (off)
- breaking
- slackening
- chilling
- lounging
- idling
- resting
- loafing
- shirking
- vegging out
- lazing
- bumming
- puttering (around)
- goofing (around)
- relaxing
- pottering (around)
- dallying
- fooling around
- basking
- hanging about
- monkeying (around)
- reposing
- playing
- lolling
- hanging
- unwinding
- trifling
- dillydallying
- goldbricking
- messing around
- footling
- dabbling
- doodling
- fribbling
