Synonyms of endeavoring

endeavoring

verb

present participle of endeavor

1

as in striving

to devote serious and sustained effort

the trapped climber endeavored mightily to get the boulder to budge

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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

2

as in trying

to make an effort to do

our club is forever endeavoring to find ways to raise more money for activities

Synonyms & Similar Words

• trying
• attempting
• striving
• seeking
• essaying
• assaying
• shooting at
• hoping
• struggling
• toiling
• working
• aiming
• having a go at
• trying one's hand (at)
• fighting
• undertaking
• troubling
• aspiring
• straining
• assuming
• taking up

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• dropping
• giving up
• quitting

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of endeavoring

The White House is endeavoring to smash the Guinness World Record for the largest-ever pyrotechnic display by shooting off 50 times more fireworks than last year. — Char Miller, Time, 30 June 2026

By unionizing, the group is additionally endeavoring to ensure greater job protections, more transparency about pay and promotion standards, and have more of a say in the corporate environment. — Katie Kilkenny, HollywoodReporter, 16 June 2026

One of the owners, Viola, made sure to keep it that way when endeavoring in this passion project. — Valentina Di Donato, Forbes.com, 6 June 2026

The president signed an executive order on March 31 that attempts to change the rules on mail-in voting, and his allies in Congress are endeavoring to reshape elections ahead of the midterms this fall, spending weeks debating a voter-ID bill that is almost certainly doomed. — Shane Harris, The Atlantic, 14 May 2026

Maryland’s Republican leaders would do well to listen to Bouchat and to follow his example rather than endeavoring to expel him from office for doing little more than stating the obvious. — Chris Roemer, Baltimore Sun, 9 Apr. 2026

Don’t fear asking your stylist for help Hair textures and styles do run the gamut, and endeavoring to find extensions to match your own might feel like a fool’s errand. — Hunter Lacey, Allure, 9 Apr. 2026

According to a synopsis, the book sees Mickey endeavoring to help the wrongly accused. — Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 6 Feb. 2026

Motte is also endeavoring to hone how the teams operate with more agility in the age of virality. — Jenny B. Fine, Footwear News, 28 Jan. 2026