Synonyms of grubbing

grubbing

verb

present participle of grub

as in laboring

to devote serious and sustained effort

grubbing away at the yard work before the first snow of the season

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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