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

Alfozan has been in jail since his arrest on a charge of using or endeavoring to use an electronic, mechanical, or other device to intercept oral communications. — Dan Mangan, CNBC, 19 Oct. 2026

Alfozan made his first court appearance Tuesday on a charge of using or endeavoring to use an electronic, mechanical, or other device to intercept oral communications. — ABC News, 13 Oct. 2026

Alfozan is charged with using or endeavoring to use a device to intercept oral communications, according to a press release from the Department of Justice. — Emma Roth, The Verge, 13 Oct. 2026

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