fagging

verb

present participle of fag
1
as in struggling
to devote serious and sustained effort the road crew fagged mightily to move the boulder out of the way

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2
as in wearing
to use up all the physical energy of the long hike up the mountain had fagged us out

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fagging
  1. struggling
  2. wearing
  3. laboring
  4. tiring
  5. striving
  6. killing
  7. working
  8. exhausting
Verb
  • Her family has been struggling after her husband lost his job as a motorcycle rider and crossed the border into neighboring Niger to look for work.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 19 July 2026
  • But he was lifted in the fourth inning, forcing Kotsay toward the team’s struggling bullpen earlier than expected.
    — Chris Biderman, Sacbee.com, 18 July 2026
Definition of struggling
Verb
  • In a clearing in the forest, his younger selves sit at a long table with the abbott, who is wearing the final boss of season three’s awful wigs.
    — Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 20 July 2026
  • Javier Bardem, wearing a Spain replica shirt with Borja Iglesias’ name and No 26 on the back, was shown celebrating in the stands.
    — Sebastian Stafford-Bloor, New York Times, 20 July 2026
Definition of wearing
Verb
  • Since the Computing Community Consortium hosted its first conference on thermodynamic computing in 2019, a small community of researchers has been laboring to put it into practice.
    — Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 15 July 2026
  • But others are still at work, laboring under a new collective bargaining agreement with another labor organization, the International Longshoremen’s Association.
    — Talia Soglin, Chicago Tribune, 5 July 2026
Definition of laboring
Verb
  • In the Los Angeles Times, Seema Mehta and Nicole Nixon report that Steyer’s ability to appear everywhere ended up tiring out voters.
    — David Weigel, semafor.com, 10 June 2026
  • Meanwhile, Shenzhen startup EngineAI can be forgiven for tiring out its PM01 humanoid.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 7 June 2026
Definition of tiring
Verb
  • More than 1,100 competitors striving to make it to the top of the country’s largest seven-day table tennis tournament will compete through July 9 at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center.
    — Doug Duran, Mercury News, 7 July 2026
  • However, labs worldwide are striving to build quantum computers with enough qubits—the quantum equivalent of the bits underlying classical computing—to execute such attacks.
    — IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 7 July 2026
Definition of striving
Verb
  • The king successfully fought a hundred men and emerged victorious, but not before killing Antinous in Sinon’s name.
    — Tanya Fedak, Variety, 18 July 2026
  • He was convicted of killing his former girlfriend’s parents four decades ago in Pasco County.
    — Jim Turner, Sun Sentinel, 18 July 2026
Definition of killing
Verb
  • For the lifelong dancer, working with choreographer Kenny Ortega was a dream come true.
    — Andrea Clement, AJC.com, 17 July 2026
  • Dolce & Gabbana obviously got there first and have been working with the soccer celebrity for some years now.
    — Dylan Jones, Robb Report, 16 July 2026
Definition of working
Verb
  • But there were hero moments here too, the same refusal to lose, the same team-work, the same selfless effort in exhausting physical conditions.
    — Jack Pitt-Brooke, New York Times, 12 July 2026
  • The two young women at the center of the chamber piece that is Fruit Gathering face more challenges than hard work in a monotonous environment, including exhausting work, economic uncertainty and social repression.
    — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 8 July 2026
Definition of exhausting
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“Fagging.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fagging. Accessed 21 Jul. 2026.

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