Synonyms of pegging (away)

pegging (away)

verb

present participle of peg (away)

as in struggling

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

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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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