Synonyms of the word

drudge

• n. A person who works in a low servile job.
• n. (pejorative) Someone who works for (and may be taken advantage of by) someone else.
• v. to labour in (or as in) a low servile job.

dig

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To move hard-packed earth out of the way, especially downward to make a hole…
• v. (transitive) To get by digging; to take from the ground; often with up.
• v. (mining) To take ore from its bed, in distinction from making excavations in search of ore.
• v. (US, slang, dated) To work like a digger; to study ploddingly and laboriously.
• v. (figuratively) To investigate, to research, often followed by out or up.
• v. To thrust; to poke.
• v. (volleyball) To defend against an attack hit by the opposing team by successfully passing the ball.
• n. An archeological investigation.
• n. (US, colloquial, dated) A plodding and laborious student.
• n. A thrust; a poke.
• n. (Britain, dialect, dated) A tool for digging.
• n. (volleyball) A defensive pass of the ball that has been attacked by the opposing team.
• v. (slang) To understand or show interest in.
• v. (slang) To appreciate, or like.

fag

• n. (US, technical) In textile inspections, a rough or coarse defect in the woven fabric.
• n. (Britain, Ireland, Australia, colloquial, dated in US and Canada) A cigarette.
• n. (Britain, obsolete, colloquial) The worst part or end of a thing.
• n. (Britain, colloquial) A chore; an arduous and tiresome task.
• n. (Britain, education, archaic, colloquial) In many British boarding schools, a younger student acting as…
• v. (transitive, colloquial, used mainly in passive form) To make exhausted, tired out.
• v. (intransitive, colloquial) To droop; to tire.
• v. (Britain, education, archaic, colloquial) For a younger student to act as a servant for senior students…
• v. (Britain, archaic) To work hard, especially on menial chores.
• n. (vulgar, offensive) A homosexual man.
• n. (US, vulgar, offensive) An annoying person.

grind

• v. To reduce to smaller pieces by crushing with lateral motion.
• v. To shape with the force of friction.
• v. (metalworking) To remove material by rubbing with an abrasive surface.
• v. To become ground, pulverized, or polished by friction.
• v. To move with much difficulty or friction; to grate.
• v. (sports) To slide the flat portion of a skateboard or snowboard across an obstacle such as a railing.
• v. To oppress, hold down or weaken.
• v. (slang) To rotate the hips erotically.
• v. (slang) To dance in a sexually suggestive way with both partners in very close proximity, often pressed…
• v. (video games) To repeat a task a large number of times in a row to achieve a specific goal.
• v. To produce mechanically and repetitively as if by turning a crank.
• v. To instill through repetitive teaching.
• v. (slang, Hawaii) To eat.
• v. (slang) To work or study hard; to hustle or drudge.
• n. The act of reducing to powder, or of sharpening, by friction.
• n. Something that has been reduced to powder, something that has been ground.
• n. A specific degree of pulverization of coffee beans.
• n. A tedious task.
• n. A grinding trick on a skateboard or snowboard.
• n. (archaic, slang) One who studies hard; a swot.
• n. Grindcore (subgenre of heavy metal).
• n. A traditional communal pilot whale hunt in the Faroe Islands.

hack

• v. (transitive) To chop or cut down in a rough manner.
• v. (intransitive) To cough noisily.
• v. To withstand or put up with a difficult situation.
• v. (transitive, slang, computing) To hack into; to gain unauthorized access to (a computer system, e.g.,…
• v. (transitive, slang, computing) By extension, to gain unauthorised access to a computer or online account…
• v. (computing) To accomplish a difficult programming task.
• v. (computing) To make a quick code change to patch a computer program, often one that, while being effective,…
• v. (transitive, colloquial, by extension) To apply a trick, shortcut, skill, or novelty method to something…
• v. (computing, slang, transitive) To work with on an intimately technical level.
• v. (ice hockey) To strike an opponent's leg with one's hockey stick.
• v. (ice hockey) To make a flailing attempt to hit the puck with a hockey stick.
• v. (baseball) To swing at a pitched ball.
• v. (soccer and rugby) To kick (a player) on the shins.
• v. To strike in a frantic movement.
• v. (transitive) To strike lightly as part of tapotement massage.
• n. A tool for chopping.
• n. A hacking blow.
• n. A gouge or notch made by such a blow.
• n. A dry cough.
• n. A hacking; a catch in speaking; a short, broken cough.
• n. (figuratively) A try, an attempt.
• n. (curling) The foothold traditionally cut into the ice from which the person who throws the rock pushes…
• n. (obsolete) A mattock or a miner's pickaxe.
• n. (computing, slang) An illegal attempt to gain access to a computer network.
• n. (computing, slang) A video game or any computer software that has been altered from its original state.
• n. (computing) An interesting technical achievement, particularly in computer programming.
• n. (computing) An expedient, temporary solution, such as a small patch or change to code, meant to be replaced…
• n. (colloquial) A trick, shortcut, skill, or novelty method to increase productivity, efficiency or ease.
• n. (slang, military) Time check.
• n. (baseball) A swing of the bat at a pitched ball by the batter.
• n. A kick on the shins in football.
• n. (falconry) A board which the falcon's food is placed on; used by extension for the state of partial freedom…
• n. A food-rack for cattle.
• n. A rack used to dry something, such as bricks, fish, or cheese.
• n. A grating in a mill race.
• v. To lay (bricks) on a rack to dry.
• v. (falconry) To keep (young hawks) in a state of partial freedom, before they are trained.
• n. (obsolete) An ordinary saddle horse, especially one which has been let out for hire and is old and tired.
• n. A person, often a journalist, hired to do routine work. (newspaper hack).
• n. (pejorative) Someone who is available for hire; hireling, mercenary.
• n. (slang) A taxicab (hackney cab) driver.
• n. A coach or carriage let for hire; particularly, a coach with two seats inside facing each other; a hackney…
• n. (pejorative) An untalented writer.
• n. (pejorative) One who is professionally successful despite producing mediocre work. (Usually applied to…
• n. (pejorative) A talented writer-for-hire, paid to put others' thoughts into felicitous language.
• n. (politics) A political agitator. (slightly derogatory).
• n. (obsolete) A writer who hires himself out for any sort of literary work; an overworked man; a drudge.
• n. (obsolete) A procuress.
• v. (dated) To make common or cliched; to vulgarise.
• v. To ride a horse at a regular pace; to ride on a road (as opposed to riding cross-country etc.).
• v. (obsolete) To be exposed or offered or to common use for hire; to turn prostitute.
• v. (obsolete) To live the life of a drudge or hack.
• v. To use as a hack; to let out for hire.
• v. To use frequently and indiscriminately, so as to render trite and commonplace.
• n. A small ball usually made of woven cotton or suede and filled with rice, sand or some other filler, for…
• v. To play hackeysack.

hacker

• n. (computing) One who is expert at programming and solving problems with a computer.
• n. (computing) One who uses a computer to gain unauthorized access to data, or to carry out malicious attacks.
• n. (computing) A computer security professional.
• n. Something that hacks; a tool or device for hacking.
• n. Someone who hacks.
• n. (US) One who is inexperienced or unskilled at a particular activity, especially a sport such as golf or…
• n. (US) One who operates a taxicab.

jack

• n. A mechanical device used to raise and (temporarily) support a heavy object, e.g. screw jack, scissor jack,…
• n. A man or men in general.
• n. A male animal.
• n. A male ass.
• n. (card games) A playing card with the letter "J" and the image of a knave or prince on it, the eleventh…
• n. (cricket) The eleventh batsman to come to the crease in an innings, derived from the playing card.
• n. (archaic) A knave (a servant or later, a deceitful man).
• n. Mangifera caesia, related to the mango tree.
• n. A surface-mounted connector for electrical, especially telecommunications, equipment.
• n. (sports) A target ball in bowls, etc; a jack-ball.
• n. (games) A small, six-pointed playing piece used in the game of jacks.
• n. (colloquial, euphemistic) Nothing, jack shit.
• n. (nautical) A small flag at the bow of a ship.
• n. (nautical) A naval ensign flag flown from the main mast, mizzen mast, or the aft-most major mast of (especially)…
• n. (military) A coarse and cheap medieval coat of defense, especially one made of leather.
• n. A penny with a head on both sides, used for cheating.
• n. (slang) Money.
• n. (slang, Appalachians) A smooth often ovoid large gravel or small cobble in a natural water course.
• n. The freshwater pike, green pike or pickerel.
• n. A large California rockfish, the bocaccio, Sebastes paucispinis.
• n. Any of the marine fish in the family Carangidae.
• n. (obsolete, nautical) A sailor, a jacktar.
• n. (obsolete) A pitcher or can of waxed leather, supposed to resemble a jackboot; a black-jack.
• n. (Britain, dialect, obsolete) A drinking measure holding half a pint or, sometimes, a quarter of a pint.
• n. A mechanical contrivance, an auxiliary machine, or a subordinate part of a machine.
• n. Female ended electrical connector (see Electrical connector).
• n. Electrical connector in a fixed position (see Gender of connectors and fasteners).
• v. (transitive) To use a jack.
• v. (transitive) To raise or increase.
• v. To produce by freeze distillation; to distil (an alcoholic beverage) by freezing it and removing the ice…
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To steal something, typically an automobile. Shortened form of carjacking.
• v. (intransitive) To dance by moving the torso forward and backward in a rippling motion.
• n. (slang, baseball) A home run.
• v. (transitive, slang, baseball) To hit (the ball) hard; especially, to hit (the ball) out of the field,…
• n. A coarse mediaeval coat of defence, especially one made of leather.
• n. A jackfruit tree.

labor

• n. American standard spelling of labour.
• v. American standard spelling of labour.

laborer

• n. One who uses body strength instead of intellectual power to earn a wage, usually hourly.

labour

• n. Effort expended on a particular task; toil, work.
• n. That which requires hard work for its accomplishment; that which demands effort.
• n. (uncountable) Workers in general; the working class, the workforce; sometimes specifically the labour…
• n. (uncountable) A political party or force aiming or claiming to represent the interests of labour.
• n. The act of a mother giving birth.
• n. The time period during which a mother gives birth.
• n. (nautical) The pitching or tossing of a vessel which results in the straining of timbers and rigging.
• n. An old measure of land area in Mexico and Texas, approximately 177 acres.
• v. (intransitive) To toil, to work.
• v. (transitive) To belabour, to emphasise or expand upon (a point in a debate, etc).
• v. To be oppressed with difficulties or disease; to do one's work under conditions which make it especially…
• v. To suffer the pangs of childbirth.
• v. (nautical) To pitch or roll heavily, as a ship in a turbulent sea.

labourer

• n. British spelling standard spelling of laborer.

moil

• v. To toil, to work hard.
• v. To churn continually.
• v. (Britain, transitive) To defile or dirty.
• n. Hard work.
• n. Confusion, turmoil.
• n. A spot; a defilement.
• n. (glassblowing) The glass circling the tip of a blowpipe or punty, such as the residual glass after detaching…
• n. (glassblowing, blow molding) The excess material which adheres to the top, base, or rim of a glass object…
• n. (glassblowing) The metallic oxide from a blowpipe which has adhered to a glass object.

navvy

• n. (Britain) a laborer on a civil engineering project such as a canal or railroad.
• v. (Britain, intransitive) To carry out physical labor on a civil engineering project.

peon

• n. A lowly person, a peasant or serf, a labourer who is obliged to do menial work.
• n. (figuratively) A low-ranking person.

toil

• n. labour, work, especially of a grueling nature.
• n. trouble, strife.
• n. A net or snare; any thread, web, or string spread for taking prey; usually in the plural.
• v. (intransitive) To labour; work.
• v. (intransitive) To struggle.
• v. (transitive) To work (something); often with out.
• v. (transitive) To weary through excessive labour.

travail

• n. (archaic) Arduous or painful exertion; excessive labor, suffering, hardship.
• n. Specifically, the labor of childbirth.
• n. (obsolete, countable) An act of working; labor (US), labour (British).
• n. (obsolete) The eclipse of a celestial object.
• n. Obsolete form of travel.
• n. Alternative form of travois (“a kind of sled”).
• v. To toil.
• v. To go through the labor of childbirth.

work

• n. (heading, uncountable) Employment.
• n. (heading, uncountable) Effort.
• n. Sustained effort to achieve a goal or result, especially overcoming obstacles.
• n. (heading) Product; the result of effort.
• n. (uncountable, slang, professional wrestling) The staging of events to appear as real.
• n. (mining) Ore before it is dressed.
• v. (intransitive) To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.
• v. (transitive) To effect by gradual degrees.
• v. (transitive) To embroider with thread.
• v. (transitive) To set into action.
• v. (transitive) To cause to ferment.
• v. (intransitive) To ferment.
• v. (transitive) To exhaust, by working.
• v. (transitive) To shape, form, or improve a material.
• v. (transitive) To operate in a certain place, area, or speciality.
• v. (transitive) To operate in or through; as, to work the phones.
• v. (transitive) To provoke or excite; to influence.
• v. (transitive) To use or manipulate to one’s advantage.
• v. (transitive) To cause to happen or to occur as a consequence.
• v. (transitive) To cause to work.
• v. (intransitive) To function correctly; to act as intended; to achieve the goal designed for.
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To influence.
• v. (intransitive) To effect by gradual degrees; as, to work into the earth.
• v. (intransitive) To move in an agitated manner.
• v. (intransitive) To behave in a certain way when handled;.
• v. (transitive, with two objects, poetic) To cause (someone) to feel (something).
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To hurt; to ache.