Synonyms of plugging

plugging 1 of 2

noun

as in filling

Synonyms & Similar Words

• filling
• closing
• repair
• sealing
• connecting
• healing
• sewing
• patching
• knitting
• joining
• linking
• combining
• stitching
• mending
• merging
• suturing
• consolidation
• coupling
• combination
• merger
• darning
• implosion
• union
• junction
• unification
• connection
• uniting
• swelling
• tumor
• rise
• hill
• projection
• swell
• bump
• mound
• protrusion
• hump
• bulge
• bunch
• lump
• pimple
• convexity
• jut
• protuberance
• camber

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• break
• fracture
• rupture
• split
• tear
• crack
• fissure
• cut
• rift
• opening
• rent
• incision
• slit
• slash
• notch
• laceration
• gap
• breach
• gash
• rip

plugging

2 of 2

verb

present participle of plug

1

as in packing

to close up so that no empty spaces remain

plugged the hole in the wall with putty

Synonyms & Similar Words

• filling
• packing
• blocking
• sealing
• bunging
• stopping
• damming
• stuffing
• jamming
• clogging
• obstructing
• occluding
• closing (off)
• choking
• calking
• congesting
• clotting
• caulking
• repacking
• chinking
• restuffing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• excavating
• shoveling
• scooping (out)
• shovelling
• hollowing (out)

2

as in laboring

to devote serious and sustained effort

plugged away at solving the math problem

Synonyms & Similar Words

• laboring
• struggling
• working
• striving
• trying
• endeavoring
• tugging
• plowing
• toiling
• slaving
• sweating
• grubbing
• hustling
• humping
• digging (away)
• slogging
• straining
• plodding
• pegging (away)
• drudging
• banging away
• travailing
• attacking
• applying (oneself)
• fagging
• sweating blood
• beavering (away)
• moiling
• driving
• scratching
• buckling (down)
• exerting
• hammering (away)
• exercising
• wading
• pitching in
• digging in
• overworking
• essaying
• grinding (out)
• trudging
• eking out
• scrabbling
• knuckling down
• overexerting
• putting out

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• breaking
• slackening
• easing (up)
• idling
• lounging
• chilling
• hanging (around or out)
• loafing
• resting
• shirking
• letting up
• bumming
• lazing
• playing
• dallying
• hacking (around)
• unwinding
• relaxing
• basking
• hanging
• slacking (off)
• goofing (off)
• lolling
• reposing
• dabbling
• goldbricking
• footling
• dillydallying
• trifling
• doodling
• fooling around
• vegging out
• messing around
• puttering (around)
• goofing (around)
• pottering (around)
• hanging about
• monkeying (around)
• fribbling

3

as in promoting

to provide publicity for

the actress is giving lots of interviews to plug her latest movie

Synonyms & Similar Words

• promoting
• selling
• publicizing
• announcing
• hyping
• pushing
• touting
• advertising
• boosting
• ballyhooing
• pitching
• talking up
• reviewing
• praising
• endorsing
• beating the drum (for)
• publishing
• barking
• merchandising
• hailing
• recommending
• lauding
• indorsing
• broadcasting
• acclaiming
• merchandizing
• plonking (for)
• plumping (for)
• plunking (for)

4

as in shooting

to strike with a missile from a gun

the drug lord plugged the stool pigeon as a lesson for any others who were tempted to talk

Synonyms & Similar Words

• shooting
• drilling
• popping
• gunning
• dropping
• killing
• destroying
• slaughtering
• slaying
• bringing down
• blazing
• picking off
• peppering
• firing (at)
• blowing away
• shooting down
• blasting (at)
• butchering
• sniping (at)
• shotgunning
• dispatching
• massacring
• potshotting
• decimating
• annihilating
• wiping out
• pistolling
• pistoling
• machine-gunning
• icing
• felling
• blotting out
• doing in
• croaking
• tommy-gunning