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