BANGS AWAY Synonyms: 86 Similar and Opposite Words

bangs away

verb

present tense third-person singular of bang away

as in struggles

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

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Recent Examples of bangs away To heat-style, blow-dry curtain bangs away from the face, sweeping them from side to side with a paddle brush. —

Ariel Wodarcyk, InStyle, 9 June 2026

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Ray struggles to hide his drink, to get a drink, to get away on his own and pursue his Sisyphean labors of hammering a bucket of baseballs off a tee and then wandering through the field to collect them and start again.

— Richard Brody, New Yorker, 12 June 2026
Roki Sasaki struggles in loss Former Dodger Miguel Vargas delivered the go-ahead hit for the White Sox in the fifth inning as part of a game-defining seven-run rally.

— Maddie Lee, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2026