Synonyms of sweating blood

sweating blood

phrase

present participle of sweat blood

1

as in struggling

to devote serious and sustained effort

They sweat blood over that house for months but it was worth it in the end.

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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

2

as in worrying

to experience concern or anxiety

He was sweating blood back stage waiting for the show to begin.

Synonyms & Similar Words

• worrying
• caring a hang
• fearing
• fretting
• stressing
• giving a hang
• troubling
• sweating
• bothering
• stewing
• fussing
• longing
• yearning
• agonizing
• pining
• despairing
• chafing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• accepting
• sticking out
• taking
• enduring
• bearing
• sustaining
• abiding
• tolerating
• stomaching