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Another word for slog

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Verb

  1. To walk heavily, slowly, and with difficulty

    See also:

    move

  2. To do tedious, laborious, and sometimes menial work

      1. To crush, pulverize, or reduce to powder by friction, especially by rubbing between two hard surfaces:
      2. To shape, sharpen, or refine with friction:
      3. To rub (two surfaces) together harshly; gnash:
      1. One who is owned as the property of someone else, especially in involuntary servitude.
      2. One who is subservient to or controlled by another:
      3. One who is subject to or controlled by a specified influence:
      1. To move or walk heavily or laboriously; trudge:
      2. To work or act perseveringly or monotonously; drudge:
      3. To trudge along or over.
      1. To dig up by or as if by the roots:
      2. To clear of roots and stumps by digging:
      3. To obtain by importunity:
      1. A person who does tedious, menial, or unpleasant work.
      2. To do tedious, unpleasant, or menial work.
    See also:

    work

  3. To deliver a powerful blow to suddenly and sharply

      1. A smooth viscous mixture, as of flour and water or of starch and water, that is used as an adhesive for joining light materials, such as paper and cloth.
      2. The moist clay or clay mixture used in making porcelain or pottery.
      3. A smooth dough of water, flour, and butter or other shortening, used in making pastry.
      1. The head.
      2. A blow, especially on the head.
      3. The human nose.
      1. A flexible band, as of leather or cloth, worn around the waist or over a shoulder to support clothing, secure tools or weapons, or serve as decoration.
      2. Something resembling a belt, as a number of machine-gun rounds attached together in a strip.
      3. An encircling route.
      1. To beat forcefully; thrash.
      2. To strike with a hard blow:
      3. To defeat thoroughly.
      1. To cut, cut off, or cut out with or as if with shears:
      2. To make shorter by cutting; trim:
      3. To cut off the edge of:
      1. To hit or strike.
      2. A blow; a punch.
      1. To strike or punch.
      2. A blow or punch.
      1. To strike with a heavy blow.
      2. To defeat soundly; thrash.
      3. A heavy blow; a sharp thud.
      1. A forceful, resounding blow.
      2. The sound of such a blow.
      3. To strike or crash into with resounding impact.
      1. To strike (someone or something) with a sharp blow; slap.
      2. To kill deliberately; murder.
      3. To deal a sharp, resounding blow.
      1. To strike or hit with a flat object; whack.
      2. A hard blow with a flat object; a whack.
      1. To strike or hit with a sharp blow:
      2. To strike or try to strike something with a sharp blow:
      3. A sharp blow or hit.
      1. To hit sharply, as with a hand, fist, weapon, or implement:
      2. To inflict (a blow).
      3. To penetrate or pierce:
      1. A short stocking reaching a point between the ankle and the knee.
      2. A windsock.
      3. A light shoe worn by comic actors in ancient Greek and Roman plays.
      1. To inflict a heavy blow on, with or as if with the hand, a tool, or a weapon.
      2. To drive or strike (a weapon, for example) forcefully onto or into something else.
      3. To attack, damage, or destroy by or as if by blows.
      1. To break (something) into pieces suddenly, noisily, and violently; shatter.
      2. To render (something) into a mush or pulp, as by throwing or crushing:
      3. To strike with a heavy blow or impact:
      1. A round bullet larger than buckshot.
      2. A shot of liquor.
      3. An amount of liquid, especially liquor, that is swallowed in one gulp; a swig.
      1. To shut with force and loud noise:
      2. To put, throw, or otherwise forcefully move so as to produce a loud noise:
      3. To hit or strike with great force.
      1. To make a short, sharp, explosive sound.
      2. To burst open with a short, sharp, explosive sound.
      3. To move quickly or unexpectedly; appear abruptly:
      1. To strike with a hard blow:
      2. To affect in a specified way by striking hard:
      3. To cause to be displaced or unengaged; force:
      1. To come into contact with forcefully; strike:
      2. To cause to come into contact:
      3. To deal a blow to:
      1. A piece of cloth, especially a baby's diaper.
      1. To get and hold (something that has been in motion) in a hand, the hands, a container, or an implement:
      2. To take hold of, especially forcibly or suddenly; grasp:
      3. To stop (oneself) from doing an action:
      1. To strike with a heavy, crushing blow:
      2. To beat or assault severely:
      3. To criticize (another) harshly, accusatorially, and threateningly:
    Idioms:
    See also:

    strike

    attack

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Another word for slog

Verb
      1. To begin and carry through to completion; do:
      2. To take action in accordance with the requirements of; fulfill:
      3. To enact (a feat or role) before an audience.
      1. Physical or mental exertion, especially when difficult or exhausting; work.
      2. A specific task or effort, especially a painful or arduous one:
      3. A particular form of work or method of working:
      1. To labor continuously; work strenuously.
      2. To proceed with difficulty:
      3. Exhausting labor or effort.
    See also:

    work

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Sentence Examples

  • Prolific electronica musician Moby had a long, hard slog to the top of the charts.

  • If your business has low margins, you may survive, but it's going to be a tough slog and may simply not be worth pursuing.

  • It might seem like age 24 is early to achieve the kind of success Paul Wall is achieving, but his hard slog to the top really began in his early teens.

  • However, it is a long hard slog in League 2 and there are some real bruisers to be found.

  • impatience of youth pictured an endless slog with a shovel, which indeed it must have been.

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