Synonyms of slogging

slogging

verb

present participle of slog

1

as in hitting

to deliver a blow to (someone or something) usually in a strong vigorous manner

the two boxers were so exhausted they just slogged each other indiscriminately

Synonyms & Similar Words

• hitting
• slapping
• knocking
• slamming
• smacking
• punching
• banging
• pounding
• whacking
• clapping
• clipping
• swiping
• striking
• cracking
• batting
• kicking
• bashing
• hammering
• slugging
• thumping
• nailing
• pushing
• poking
• tapping
• bobbing
• swatting
• shoving
• thwacking
• licking
• bopping
• jabbing
• boxing
• bludgeoning
• flicking
• chopping
• clouting
• socking
• clocking
• clobbering
• zapping
• smiting
• walloping
• biffing
• bonking
• busting
• tagging
• pasting
• belting
• rapping
• stabbing
• bumping
• stroking
• whaling
• battering
• pummeling
• beating
• pummelling
• mauling
• pelting
• peppering
• dumping
• slashing
• buffeting
• mangling
• lashing
• hanging one on
• whipping
• prodding
• lambasting
• drubbing
• roughing
• scuffing
• bunging
• stamping
• jostling
• cuffing
• levelling
• sapping
• flailing
• butting
• creaming
• thrashing
• lacing
• flogging
• switching
• pommelling
• cudgeling
• bunting
• spearing
• cudgelling
• kneeing
• sledging
• clubbing
• leveling
• pommeling
• felling
• conking
• decking
• braining
• bowling (down or over)
• sledgehammering
• knocking down
• skulling
• flooring
• caning
• sucker punching
• rabbit-punching
• beaning

2

as in laboring

to devote serious and sustained effort

slogging their way through a pile of paperwork

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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

3

as in pounding

to strike repeatedly

the feisty woman was still slogging her would-be attacker when the police arrived

Synonyms & Similar Words

• pounding
• licking
• hiding
• lashing
• whipping
• doing
• battering
• pelting
• beating
• hitting
• knocking
• slapping
• attacking
• punching
• slamming
• thumping
• smashing
• batting
• assaulting
• chopping
• hammering
• bashing
• pummeling
• pummelling
• paddling
• raiding
• mauling
• storming
• spanking
• thrashing
• bludgeoning
• tromping
• flogging
• whacking
• buffeting
• walloping
• clubbing
• switching
• smacking
• belting
• whopping
• lambasting
• drubbing
• slating
• lathering
• boxing
• fibbing
• tanning
• currying
• whapping
• belaboring
• working over
• punching out
• swiping
• rushing
• threshing
• whaling
• basting
• lacing
• whupping
• cracking
• roughing (up)
• messing (up)
• pommelling
• swatting
• wounding
• pommeling
• thwacking
• socking
• strapping
• clouting
• birching
• clobbering
• cudgeling
• pasting
• cudgelling
• assailing
• busting
• bunging up
• beating up on
• flagellating
• cuffing
• descending (on or upon)
• besetting
• jumping (on)
• whomping
• laying on
• whamming
• lacerating
• scourging
• pouncing (on or upon)
• lamming
• caning
• mangling
• mutilating
• leathering
• maiming
• goring
• pistol-whipping
• blackjacking
• horsewhipping
• rawhiding
• cowhiding
• fustigating

4

as in shuffling

to move heavily or clumsily

Gramps never tired of telling how he had to slog through the snow in order to get to school

Synonyms & Similar Words

• shuffling
• stumbling
• stomping
• trudging
• barging
• hauling
• sloughing
• pounding
• floundering
• weaving
• tramping
• dragging
• lurching
• shambling
• plodding
• stumping
• stamping
• scuffling
• lumping
• clumping
• lumbering
• scuffing
• galumphing
• staggering
• flogging
• swaying
• flopping
• tromping
• reeling
• waddling
• blundering
• tottering
• careening
• wabbling
• teetering
• wobbling
• doddering

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• sliding
• coasting
• gliding
• whisking
• floating
• waltzing
• hanging
• drifting
• breezing
• hovering
• wafting
• poising