Synonyms of beavering (away)

beavering (away)

verb

present participle of beaver (away)

as in laboring

to devote serious and sustained effort

he's been beavering away at the various courses for his dinner party all day long, hoping to impress his new friends

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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