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单词 bang away
释义

bang away

verb

banged away; banging away; bangs away

intransitive verb

1
: to work with determined effort
students banging away at their homework
2
: to attack persistently
police are going to keep banging away at you Erle Stanley Gardner

Synonyms

  • beaver (away)
  • dig (away)
  • drudge
  • endeavor
  • fag
  • grub
  • hump
  • hustle
  • labor
  • moil
  • peg (away)
  • plod
  • plow
  • plug
  • slave
  • slog
  • strain
  • strive
  • struggle
  • sweat
  • toil
  • travail
  • tug
  • work
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Example Sentences

the design team has been banging away at that project for months

Word History

First Known Use

1818, in the meaning defined at sense 1

bang away

verb

as in to labor
to devote serious and sustained effort the design team has been banging away at that project for months

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • labor
  • struggle
  • work
  • sweat blood
  • strive
  • try
  • tug
  • peg (away)
  • slave
  • plow
  • hump
  • travail
  • sweat
  • dig (away)
  • grub
  • endeavor
  • toil
  • hustle
  • beaver (away)
  • fag
  • plug
  • drudge
  • pitch in
  • strain
  • knuckle down
  • buckle (down)
  • moil
  • dig in
  • plod
  • slog
  • attack
  • hammer (away)
  • apply (oneself)
  • eke out
  • put out
  • exercise
  • essay
  • scratch
  • drive
  • grind (out)
  • exert
  • overexert
  • overwork
  • wade
  • scrabble
  • trudge

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • ease (up)
  • hang (around or out)
  • break
  • hack (around)
  • let up
  • slack (off)
  • goof (off)
  • slacken
  • lounge
  • bum
  • rest
  • chill
  • idle
  • shirk
  • loaf
  • veg out
  • relax
  • fool around
  • goof (around)
  • footle
  • play
  • laze
  • hang about
  • mess around
  • unwind
  • bask
  • repose
  • dally
  • hang
  • potter (around)
  • monkey (around)
  • putter (around)
  • loll
  • goldbrick
  • trifle
  • dillydally
  • doodle
  • dabble
  • fribble
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