Synonyms of slaving

slaving

verb

present participle of slave

as in laboring

to devote serious and sustained effort

slaving over a hot stove

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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