Synonyms of plugging

plugging 1 of 2

noun

as in filling

Related Words

• filling
• closing
• repair
• sealing
• connecting
• healing
• sewing
• patching
• knitting
• joining
• linking
• combining
• stitching
• mending
• merging
• suturing
• consolidation
• coupling
• combination
• merger
• darning
• implosion
• union
• junction
• unification
• connection
• uniting
• swelling
• tumor
• rise
• hill
• projection
• swell
• bump
• mound
• protrusion
• hump
• bulge
• bunch
• lump
• pimple
• convexity
• jut
• protuberance
• camber

Dissimilar Words

• break
• fracture
• rupture
• split
• tear
• crack
• fissure
• cut
• rift
• opening
• rent
• incision
• slit
• slash
• notch
• laceration
• gap
• breach
• gash
• rip

plugging

2 of 2

verb

present participle of plug

1

as in packing

to close up so that no empty spaces remain

plugged the hole in the wall with putty

Synonyms & Similar Words

• filling
• packing
• blocking
• sealing
• bunging
• stopping
• damming
• stuffing
• jamming
• clogging
• obstructing
• occluding
• closing (off)
• choking
• congesting
• clotting
• caulking
• repacking
• chinking
• restuffing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• excavating
• shoveling
• scooping (out)
• hollowing (out)

2

as in laboring

to devote serious and sustained effort

plugged away at solving the math problem

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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

3

as in promoting

to provide publicity for

the actress is giving lots of interviews to plug her latest movie

Synonyms & Similar Words

• promoting
• selling
• publicizing
• announcing
• hyping
• pushing
• touting
• boosting
• advertising
• ballyhooing
• pitching
• reviewing
• praising
• beating the drum (for)
• endorsing
• talking up
• publishing
• barking
• merchandising
• hailing
• recommending
• lauding
• broadcasting
• acclaiming
• plonking (for)
• plumping (for)
• plunking (for)

4

as in shooting

to strike with a missile from a gun

the drug lord plugged the stool pigeon as a lesson for any others who were tempted to talk

Synonyms & Similar Words

• shooting
• drilling
• popping
• gunning
• dropping
• killing
• destroying
• slaughtering
• slaying
• bringing down
• blazing
• picking off
• peppering
• firing (at)
• blowing away
• shooting down
• blasting (at)
• butchering
• sniping (at)
• dispatching
• massacring
• potshotting
• decimating
• annihilating
• shotgunning
• wiping out
• pistoling
• machine-gunning
• icing
• felling
• blotting out
• doing in
• croaking
• tommy-gunning

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of plugging

Noun

In addition, most of the money dedicated to well plugging is expended through contractors. — Eleanor Dearman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 May 2026

Changes in estrogen and androgen levels can increase keratin production, promoting follicular plugging, while also affecting oil and sweat gland activity. — Lauryn Higgins, Flow Space, 11 May 2026

The framework also showed high precision in tasks like charger plugging, where millimeter-level accuracy is critical. — Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 30 Mar. 2026

To address the issue, the Center for Biological Diversity is pushing for faster plugging of idle wells, prioritizing the effort near sensitive locations and making oil and gas companies pay for it. — Jemma Stephenson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Feb. 2026

Continue reading … RATTLED HOST — CNN's Jake Tapper 'very unhappy' after network tightens book plugging. — FOXNews.com, 19 Feb. 2026

Oil companies are required to set aside funds, called bonds, that the state can call on to pay for well plugging and environmental cleanup. — Mark Olalde, ProPublica, 22 Jan. 2026

These items often need daily recharging, necessitating regular plugging and unplugging. — Timothy Dale, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Dec. 2025

Such plugging used to come in the form of critical scores. — Senior Wine Critic, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 May 2016

Verb

In the age of GLP-1s where bodies seem to be shrinking left and right, donated cadaver fat is plugging an emerging gap in the market. — Leah Dolan, CNN Money, 13 July 2026

Corky Quirk, who founded the local rescue organization NorCal Bats, previously said the colony was well over 20 years old when Sacramento started plugging up bat entrances in the fall of 2025. — Ariane Lange, Sacbee.com, 2 July 2026

Today, implementing standards and plugging these gaps is the province of compliance. — Lisa Umberger, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026

It’s been so interesting to hear about plugging and abandonment issues from a different perspective. — Chicago Tribune, 28 June 2026

Events, meet and greets, panels and activations were divided into the three main categories of film and tv, book adaptations (with author signings) and musical experiences — plugging Amazon Music as their streaming service branch. — Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 27 June 2026

His focus on the GOP voter ID bill is preventing Congress from reviving a key surveillance law, plugging up the House floor, and even keeping him from signing a bipartisan housing bill. — Burgess Everett, semafor.com, 26 June 2026

How the technologies work A battery EV is charged by plugging into the electricity grid. — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 16 June 2026

The 29-year-old Barcelona star frequently dropped deeper into the back line and formed a back five when the Netherlands were out of possession, plugging gaps to allow the centre-backs to shuffle across to defend wide areas or have a free run when defending aerial balls into the box. — Mark Carey, New York Times, 15 June 2026