Synonyms of pegged (away)

pegged (away)

verb

past tense of peg (away)

as in labored

to devote serious and sustained effort

the writer pegged away at his first novel for three years before he felt that it was ready to be published

Synonyms & Similar Words

• labored
• struggled
• worked
• dug (away)
• endeavored
• banged away
• tried
• tugged
• sweat
• plowed
• toiled
• grubbed
• applied (oneself)
• strove
• hustled
• sweat blood
• slaved
• hammered (away)
• plugged
• humped
• travailed
• fagged
• strained
• beavered (away)
• moiled
• pitched in
• buckled (down)
• plodded
• drudged
• slogged
• dug in
• attacked
• eked out
• knuckled down
• ground (out)
• scratched
• exerted
• essayed
• drove
• exercised
• put out
• overworked
• waded
• overexerted
• trudged
• scrabbled

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• eased (up)
• let up
• broke
• slackened
• hung (around or out)
• hacked (around)
• slacked (off)
• chilled
• goofed (off)
• lounged
• loafed
• idled
• shirked
• rested
• bummed
• vegged out
• relaxed
• dallied
• lazed
• played
• reposed
• dillydallied
• basked
• hung
• unwound
• lolled
• goldbricked
• footled
• puttered (around)
• pottered (around)
• fooled around
• hung about
• messed around
• goofed (around)
• trifled
• dabbled
• doodled
• monkeyed (around)
• fribbled