Synonyms of the word

plodding

• v. present participle of plod.
• adj. Progressing slowly and laboriously.
• n. Slow, laborious progress.

drudgery

• n. Tedious, menial and exhausting work.

effortful

• adj. Requiring or showing effort.

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.

labor

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

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.

leaden

• adj. (dated) Made of lead.
• adj. Pertaining to or resembling lead; heavy, grey, sluggish.
• adj. Dull; darkened with overcast.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To make or become dull or overcast.

plod

• n. A slow or labored walk or other motion or activity.
• v. (intransitive) To walk or move slowly and heavily or laboriously (+ on, through, over).
• v. (transitive) To trudge over or through.
• v. To toil; to drudge; especially, to study laboriously and patiently.
• n. (obsolete) A puddle.
• n. (Britain, mildly derogatory, uncountable, usually with "the") the police, police officers.
• n. (Britain, mildly derogatory, countable) a police officer, especially a low-ranking one.

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.

walk

• v. (intransitive) To move on the feet by alternately setting each foot (or pair or group of feet, in the…
• v. (intransitive, colloquial, law) To "walk free", i.e. to win, or avoid, a criminal court case, particularly…
• v. (intransitive, colloquial, euphemistic) Of an object, to go missing or be stolen.
• v. (intransitive, cricket, of a batsman) To walk off the field, as if given out, after the fielding side…
• v. (transitive) To travel (a distance) by walking.
• v. (transitive) To take for a walk or accompany on a walk.
• v. (transitive, baseball) To allow a batter to reach base by pitching four balls.
• v. (transitive) To move something by shifting between two positions, as if it were walking.
• v. (transitive) To full; to beat cloth to give it the consistency of felt.
• v. (transitive) To traverse by walking (or analogous gradual movement).
• v. (intransitive, colloquial) To leave, resign.
• v. (transitive) To push (a vehicle) alongside oneself as one walks.
• v. To behave; to pursue a course of life; to conduct oneself.
• v. To be stirring; to be abroad; to go restlessly about; said of things or persons expected to remain quiet,…
• v. (obsolete) To be in motion; to act; to move.
• v. (transitive, historical) To put, keep, or train (a puppy) in a walk, or training area for dogfighting.
• v. (transitive, informal, hotel) To move a guest to another hotel if their confirmed reservation is not available…
• n. A trip made by walking.
• n. A distance walked.
• n. (sports) An Olympic Games track event requiring that the heel of the leading foot touch the ground before…
• n. A manner of walking; a person's style of walking.
• n. A path, sidewalk/pavement or other maintained place on which to walk. Compare trail.
• n. (poker) A situation where all players fold to the big blind, as their first action (instead of calling…
• n. (baseball) An award of first base to a batter following four balls being thrown by the pitcher; known…
• n. In coffee, coconut, and other plantations, the space between them.
• n. (historical) A place for keeping and training puppies for dogfighting.
• n. (historical) An enclosed area in which a gamecock is confined to prepare him for fighting.
• n. (graph theory) A sequence of alternating vertices and edges, where each edge's endpoints are the preceding…
• n. (colloquial) Something very easily accomplished; a walk in the park.

walking

• v. present participle of walk.
• n. gerund of walk.
• adj. Incarnate as a human; living.
• adj. Able to walk in spite of injury or sickness.
• adj. Characterized by or suitable for walking.