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单词 banged 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

banged away

verb

past tense of bang away
as in labored
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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  • labored
  • struggled
  • wrought
  • worked
  • pegged (away)
  • sweat blood
  • sweated blood
  • moiled
  • sweat
  • tried
  • tugged
  • dug (away)
  • travailed
  • plowed
  • grubbed
  • toiled
  • strove
  • hustled
  • drudged
  • humped
  • endeavored
  • strived
  • slaved
  • sweated
  • beavered (away)
  • pitched in
  • plugged
  • knuckled down
  • dug in
  • strained
  • fagged
  • plodded
  • eked out
  • slogged
  • attacked
  • buckled (down)
  • hammered (away)
  • put out
  • scratched
  • overexerted
  • exerted
  • applied (oneself)
  • exercised
  • drove
  • essayed
  • overworked
  • ground (out)
  • waded
  • trudged
  • scrabbled

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • eased (up)
  • hanged (around or out)
  • let up
  • slackened
  • hung (around or out)
  • broke
  • hacked (around)
  • slacked (off)
  • goofed (off)
  • chilled
  • rested
  • relaxed
  • idled
  • bummed
  • vegged out
  • shirked
  • lounged
  • loafed
  • lazed
  • dallied
  • dillydallied
  • goldbricked
  • played
  • fooled around
  • footled
  • unwound
  • reposed
  • hung
  • basked
  • goofed (around)
  • hung about
  • pottered (around)
  • lolled
  • hanged
  • puttered (around)
  • monkeyed (around)
  • trifled
  • dabbled
  • messed around
  • doodled
  • fribbled
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