Synonyms of laboring

laboring

verb

present participle of labor

as in struggling

to devote serious and sustained effort

the young lawyer labored most of the weekend over the difficult legal brief

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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