bust a gut
hustle
be at pains
take pains
give it one's best shot
bite off more than one can chew
go to the trouble
effort
overhard
bid
hard as iron
overhit
overwork
difficult
kick at the can
have a go
ettle
toughen
try as one may
overstrike
seek
slave
essay
sweat
try
attempt
assay
beaver
bust one's hump
give something a go
graft
give something a try
at pains
put a shift in
strivingly
go for
give something a whirl
overchallenge
slug away
have a stab
big
bust one's balls
hack
overstrive
take a stab at
sweat blood
rough
work like a Trojan
semihard
slave away
stab
hard going
work like a dog
pass
essaying
tool
bust one's ass
take a crack at
bust a nut
struggle
harden
lash
work like a mule
work like a horse
fight
overreach
indurate
go
sweat one's guts out
overpush
outstrain
taste
exploit
laborious
inbeat
challenging
moil
shun
uneasy
hard time
thwack
rough sledding
give it a whirl
give it a try
pedgill
triable
tryingly
pushingly
make an effort
go ham
go to extraordinary lengths
assist
tough as nails
rub along
give it some welly
overhard
hard as iron
difficult
rough
semihard
laborious
challenging
uneasy
triable
tough as nails
strivingly
big
tryingly
pushingly
overchallenge
hack
try
stab
pass
essaying
lash
go
hard time
rough sledding
bust a gut
hustle
be at pains
take pains
give it one's best shot
bite off more than one can chew
go to the trouble
effort
bid
overhit
overwork
kick at the can
have a go
ettle
toughen
overstrike
seek
slave
essay
sweat
try
attempt
assay
beaver
bust one's hump
give something a go
graft
give something a try
put a shift in
go for
give something a whirl
slug away
have a stab
bust one's balls
overstrive
take a stab at
sweat blood
work like a Trojan
slave away
work like a dog
tool
bust one's ass
take a crack at
bust a nut
struggle
harden
work like a mule
work like a horse
fight
overreach
indurate
sweat one's guts out
overpush
outstrain
taste
exploit
inbeat
moil
shun
thwack
give it a whirl
give it a try
pedgill
make an effort
go ham
go to extraordinary lengths
assist
rub along
give it some welly
verb
adj
adj
verb
- To work hard.
- To work as a slaver, to enslave people.
- To place a device under the control of another.
noun
- A sex slave, a person who is forced against their will to perform, for another person or group, sexual acts on a regular or continuing basis.
- An abject person.
- A submissive partner in a BDSM relationship who (consensually) submits to (sexually and/or personally) serving one or more masters or mistresses.
- A device (such as a secondary flash or hard drive) that is subject to the control of another (a master).
- A person who is held in servitude as the property of another person, and whose labor (and often also whose body and life) is subject to the owner's volition and control.
- A drudge; one who labors or is obliged (e.g. by prior contract) to labor like a slave with limited rights, e.g. an indentured servant.
- One who has no power of resistance (to something), one who surrenders to or is under the domination (of something).
verb
- To work hard.
- To stress out.
- To cause to excrete moisture through skin.
- To emit sweat.
- To worry about (something).
- To cause to perspire.
- To have drops of water form on (something's surface) due to moisture condensation.
- To be extremely dedicated to winning a game; to play competitively.
- To extract money, labour, etc. from, by exaction or oppression.
- To emit moisture.
- To solder (a pipe joint) together.
- To take a racehorse for a short exercise run.
- To cook slowly at low heat, in shallow oil and without browning, to reduce moisture content.
- To worry.
- To emit, in the manner of sweat.
- To suffer a penalty; to smart for one's misdeeds.
noun
- The state of one who sweats; diaphoresis.
- Hard work; toil.
- A short run by a racehorse as a form of exercise.
- An extremely competitive player.
- The sweating sickness.
- Fluid that exits the body through pores in the skin usually due to physical stress and/or high temperature for the purpose of regulating body temperature and removing certain compounds from the circulation.
- A soldier (especially one who is old or experienced).
- Moisture issuing from any substance.
verb
- make an effort or attempt
- put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to
- put on trial or hear a case and sit as the judge at the trial of
- take a sample of
- examine or hear (evidence or a case) by judicial process
- give pain or trouble to
- test the limits of
- melt (fat or lard) in order to separate out impurities
- put on a garment in order to see whether it fits and looks nice
noun
verb
noun
- an appraisal of the state of affairs
- a substance that is undergoing an analysis of its components
- a written report of the results of an analysis of the composition of some substance
- a quantitative or qualitative test of a substance (especially an ore or a drug) to determine its components; frequently used to test for the presence or concentration of infectious agents or antibodies etc.
verb
- To work hard.
- To cut a continuous ring around a tree that one is felling.
- After being doubled, to immediately double the stakes again, a move that keeps the doubling cube on one’s own side of the board.
- To form a felt-like texture, similar to the way beaver fur is used for felt-making.
- To spot a beard in a game of beaver.
noun
- A hat, of various shapes, made from a felted beaver fur (or later of silk), fashionable in Europe between 1550 and 1850.
- Beaver cloth, a heavy felted woollen cloth, used chiefly for making overcoats.
- A brown colour, like that of a beaver.
- The fur of the beaver.
- The pubic hair near a vulva or a vulva itself; (attributively) denoting films or literature featuring nude women.
- Beaver pelts as an article of exchange or as a standard of value.
- A woman, especially one who is sexually attractive.
- A game, in which points are scored by spotting beards.
- A semiaquatic rodent of the genus Castor, having a wide, flat tail and webbed feet.
- A beard or a bearded person.
- A move in response to being doubled, in which one immediately doubles the stakes again, keeping the doubling cube on one’s own side of the board.
verb
verb
- To work hard.
- To cover, as a ring bolt, block strap, splicing, etc., with a weaving of small cord or rope yarns.
- To form a graft polymer
- To insert scions (grafts) from one tree, or kind of tree, etc., into another; to practice grafting.
- To implant a portion of (living flesh or akin) in a lesion so as to form an organic union.
- To join (one thing) to another as if by grafting, so as to bring about a close union.
- To obtain illegal gain from bribery or similar corrupt practices.
- To insert (a graft) in a branch or stem of another tree; to propagate by insertion in another stock; also, to insert a graft upon.
noun
- A cut of the take (money).
- A job or trade.
- A criminal’s special branch of practice.
- A portion of living tissue used in the operation of autoplasty.
- A con job.
- A small shoot or scion of a tree inserted in another tree, the stock of which is to support and nourish it. The two unite and become one tree, but the graft determines the kind of fruit.
- The depth of the blade of a digging tool such as a spade or shovel.
- A narrow spade used in digging drainage trenches.
- A branch or portion of a tree growing from such a shoot.
- Illicit profit by corrupt means, especially in public life.
- Corruption in official life.
- A bribe, especially on an ongoing basis.
- Work; labor requiring effort.
prep_phrase
adv
verb
- To try for, to attempt to reach.
- To favor, accept; to have a preference for.
- To attack.
- To develop a strong interest in, especially in a sudden manner; to be infatuated with.
- To apply equally to.
- To undertake (an action); to choose an option.
- To suffice to be used for; to serve as.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go, for.
adv
- Hard.
- In a large amount or to a large extent.
- On a large scale, expansively.
- You've got to think big to succeed at Amalgamated Plumbing.
- In a boasting manner.
- In a loud manner.
noun
- The participant in ageplay who acts out the older role.
- An important or powerful person; a celebrity; a big name.
- A initiated member of a sorority who acts as a mentor to a new member (the little).
- One or more kinds of barley, especially six-rowed barley.
- The big leagues, big time.
adj
- Important or significant.
- Mature, conscientious, principled; generous.
- Popular.
- Large with young; pregnant; swelling; ready to give birth or produce.
- Enthusiastic (about).
- Fat.
- Adult; (of a child) older.
- Populous.
- Used as an intensifier, especially of negative-valence nouns
- Of great size, large.
- Operating on a large scale, especially if therefore having undue or sinister influence.
- Well-endowed, possessing large breasts in the case of a woman or a large penis in the case of a man.
- Old, mature. Used to imply that somebody is too old for something, or acting immaturely.
noun
- A try, an attempt.
- A person who frequently canvasses for votes, either directly or by appearing to continuously act with the ulterior motive of furthering their political career.
- An expedient, temporary solution, such as a small patch or change to code, meant to be replaced with a more elegant solution at a later date; a workaround.
- The foothold traditionally cut into the ice from which the person who throws the rock pushes off for delivery.
- A trick, shortcut, skill, or novelty method to increase productivity, efficiency, or ease.
- A video game or any computer software that has been altered from its original state.
- A hacking blow.
- An improvised device or solution to a problem.
- A hacking; a catch in speaking; a short, broken cough.
- A taxicab (hackney cab) driver.
- A hearse.
- A small ball usually made of woven cotton or suede and filled with rice, sand or some other filler, for use in hackeysack.
- A dry cough.
- A vehicle let for hire; originally, a hackney coach, now typically a taxicab.
- A kick on the shins in football of any type.
- A tool for chopping.
- A horse for hire, especially one which is old and tired.
- The act of striking an opponent with one's hockey stick, typically on the leg but occasionally and more seriously on the back, arm, head, etc.
- A board which the falcon's food is placed on; used by extension for the state of partial freedom in which they are kept before being trained.
- A gouge or notch made by such a blow.
- Time check, as for example upon synchronization of wristwatches.
- A computer programmer who makes quick but inelegant changes to computer code to solve problems or add features.
- A computer programmer, particularly a veteran or someone not immediately expected to be capable of programming.
- A swing of the bat at a pitched ball by the batter, particularly a choppy, ungraceful one that misses the ball such as at a fastball.
- One who is professionally successful despite producing mediocre work. (Usually applied to persons in a creative field.)
- A talented writer-for-hire, paid to put others' thoughts into felicitous language.
- An interesting technical achievement, particularly in computer programming.
- A food-rack for cattle.
- Someone who is available for hire; hireling, mercenary.
- An untalented writer.
- A rack used to dry something, such as bricks, fish, or cheese.
- An airplane of poor quality or in poor condition.
- An illegal attempt to gain access to a computer network.
- A grating in a mill race.
- Confinement of an officer to their stateroom as a punishment.
- A person, often a journalist, hired to do routine work.
- A political agitator.
verb
- To ride a horse at a regular pace; to ride on a road (as opposed to riding cross-country etc.).
- To use as a hack; to let out for hire.
- To chop or cut down in a rough manner.
- To kick (a player) on the shins.
- To swing at a pitched ball.
- To use frequently and indiscriminately, so as to render trite and commonplace.
- To cheat by using unauthorized modifications.
- To work with something on an intimately technical level.
- To strike an opponent with one's hockey stick, typically on the leg but occasionally and more seriously on the back, arm, head, etc.
- To hack into; to gain unauthorized access to (a computer system, e.g., a website, or network) by manipulating code.
- To make a flailing attempt to hit the puck with a hockey stick.
- To withstand or put up with a difficult situation.
- To gain unauthorised access to a computer or online account belonging to (a person or organisation).
- To strike in a frantic movement.
- To play hackeysack.
- To lay (bricks) on a rack to dry.
- To drive a hackney cab.
- To apply a trick, shortcut, skill, or novelty method to something to increase productivity, efficiency or ease.
- To keep (young hawks) in a state of partial freedom, before they are trained.
- To cough noisily.
- To make a quick code change to patch a computer program, often one that, while being effective, is inelegant or makes the program harder to maintain.
- To accomplish a difficult programming task.
- To strike lightly as part of tapotement massage.
adj
- Difficult; trying.
- Turbulent.
- Crude; unrefined.
- Approximate; hasty or careless; not finished.
- Violent; not careful or subtle.
- Not polished; uncut.
- Harsh-tasting.
- Somewhat ill; sick; in poor condition.
- Unwell due to alcohol; hungover.
- Loud and hoarse; offensive to the ear; harsh; grating.
- Worn; shabby; weather-beaten.
- Not smooth; uneven.
verb
- To render rough; to roughen.
- To break in (a horse, etc.), especially for military purposes.
- To create in an approximate form.
- To endure primitive conditions.
- To roughen a horse's shoes to keep the animal from slipping.
- To commit the offense of roughing, i.e. to punch another player.
noun
- A quick sketch, similar to a thumbnail but larger and more detailed, used for artistic brainstorming.
- A scuffed and roughened area of the pitch, where the bowler's feet fall, used as a target by spin bowlers because of its unpredictable bounce.
- The unmowed part of a golf course.
- The raw material from which faceted or cabochon gems are created.
- A rude fellow; a coarse bully; a rowdy.
- A piece inserted in a horseshoe to keep the animal from slipping.
adv
verb
adj
verb
noun
- An attempt.
- The horizontal or vertical stabilizer of an aircraft.
- A wound made by stabbing.
- An act of stabbing or thrusting with an object.
- Pain inflicted on a person's feelings.
- Criticism.
- A single staccato chord that adds dramatic impact to a composition.
- A bacterial culture made by inoculating a solid medium, such as gelatin, with the puncture of a needle or wire.
verb
- To injure secretly or by malicious falsehood or slander.
- To pierce or to wound (somebody) with a (usually pointed) tool or weapon, especially a knife or dagger.
- To thrust in a stabbing motion.
- To roughen a brick wall with a pick so as to hold plaster.
- To cause a sharp, painful sensation (often used with at).
- To pierce folded sheets, near their back edges, for the passage of thread or wire.
- To recklessly hit with the tip of a (usually pointed) object, such as a weapon or finger (often used with at).
verb
noun
- An attempt.
- A single movement, especially of a hand, at, over, or along anything.
- Success in an examination or similar test.
- Permission or license to pass, or to go and come.
- An intentional walk.
- The area in a restaurant kitchen where the finished dishes are passed from the chefs to the waiting staff.
- A sexual advance.
- A run through a document as part of a translation, compilation or reformatting process.
- A document granting permission to pass or to go and come; a passport; a ticket permitting free transit or admission
- The act of moving the ball or puck from one player to another.
- A single passage of a tool over something, or of something over a tool.
- A passing of two trains in the same direction on a single track, when one is put into a siding to let the other overtake it.
- A channel connecting a river or body of water to the sea, for example at the mouth (delta) of a river.
- The act of overtaking; an overtaking manoeuvre.
- The state of things; condition; predicament; impasse.
- An opening, road, or track, available for passing; especially, one through or over some dangerous or otherwise impracticable barrier such as a mountain range; a passageway; a defile; a ford.
- A password (especially one for a restricted-access website).
- A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary.
- A thrust; a sally of wit.
- An act of declining to play one's turn in a game, often by saying the word "pass".
verb
- To cause to move or go; to send; to transfer from one person, place, or condition to another.
- To depart, to cease, to come to an end.
- To spend.
- To go from one person to another.
- To put through a sieve.
- To be tolerated as a substitute for something else, to "do".
- To reject; to pass up.
- To happen.
- In turn-based games, to decline to play in one's turn.
- To proceed without hindrance or opposition.
- To take a turn with (a line, gasket, etc.), as around a sail in furling, and make secure.
- To utter; to pronounce; to pledge.
- To die.
- To cause to obtain entrance, admission, or conveyance.
- In euchre, to decline to make the trump.
- To transcend; to surpass; to excel; to exceed.
- To put in circulation; to give currency to.
- To live through; to have experience of; to undergo; to suffer.
- To decline something that is offered or available.
- To move or be moved from one place to another.
- To change from one state to another (without the implication of progression).
- To continue.
- To elapse, to be spent.
- To progress from one state to another; to advance.
- To be conveyed or transferred by will, deed, or other instrument of conveyance.
- To cause to advance by stages of progress; to carry on with success through an ordeal, examination, or action; specifically, to give legal or official sanction to; to ratify; to enact; to approve as valid and just.
- To move (the ball or puck) to a teammate.
- To kick (the ball) with precision rather than at full force.
- To go by without noticing; to omit attention to; to take no note of; to disregard.
- To eliminate (something) from the body by natural processes.
- To be accepted by others as a member of a race, sex, or other group to which one does not belong or would not have originally appeared to belong; especially to be considered white although one has black ancestry, or a woman although one was assigned male at birth or vice versa.
- To make a lunge or swipe.
- To throw the ball, generally downfield, towards a teammate.
- To decline or not attempt to answer a question.
- To advance through all the steps or stages necessary to become valid or effective; to obtain the formal sanction of (a legislative body).
- To make a judgment on or upon a person or case.
- To achieve a successful outcome from.
- To go past, by, over, or through; to proceed from one side to the other of; to move past.
noun
verb
- To work very hard.
- To equip with tools.
- To work on or shape with tools, e.g., hand-tooled leather.
- To intentionally attack the ball so that it deflects off a blocker out of bounds.
- To travel in a vehicle; to ride or drive.
- To put down another person (possibly in a subtle, hidden way), and in that way to use him or her to meet a goal.
noun
- A mechanical device intended to make a task easier.
- A penis, notably with a sexual or erotic connotation.
- A person or group which is used or controlled, usually unwittingly, by another person or group.
- Something to perform an operation; an instrument; a means.
- Any piece of equipment used in a profession, e.g. a craftman's tools.
- A gun.
- A piece of software used to develop software or hardware, or to perform low-level operations.
- An obnoxious or uptight person.
verb
noun
- An attempt; a go at something.
- The thong or braided cord of a whip, with which the blow is given.
- A quick and violent sweeping movement, as of an animal's tail; a swish.
- A stroke of satire or sarcasm; an expression or retort that cuts or gives pain; a cut.
- In carpet weaving, a group of strings for lifting simultaneously certain yarns, to form the figure.
- A stroke with a whip, or anything pliant and tough, often given as a punishment.
- A hair growing from the edge of the eyelid; an eyelash.
- Looseness between fitted parts, either intentional (as allowance) or unintentional (from error or wear).
adj
verb
- To utter censure or sarcastic language.
- To throw out with a jerk or quickly.
- To scold; or to satirize; to censure with severity.
- To fall heavily, especially in the phrase lash down.
- Used in phrasal verbs: lash back, lash out.
- To strike forcibly and quickly, as with a lash; to beat, or beat upon, with a motion like that of a lash.
- To strike with a lash; to whip or scourge with a lash, or with something like one.
- To ply the whip; to strike.
- To bind with a rope, cord, thong, or chain, so as to fasten.
noun
- An attempt, a try.
- A turn at something, or in something (e.g. a game).
- An approval or permission to do something, or that which has been approved.
- Power of going or doing; energy; vitality; perseverance.
- The situation where a player cannot play a card which will not carry the aggregate count above thirty-one.
- An act; the working or operation.
- A period of activity.
- Synonym: green light
- A strategic board game, originally from China and today also popular in Japan and Korea, in which two players (black and white) attempt to control the largest area of the board with their counters.
- Synonyms: attempt, bash, shot, stab, try
- The act of going.
adj
verb
- To move through space (especially to or through a place). (May be used of tangible things like people or cars, or intangible things like moods or information.)
- To change (from one value to another) in the meaning of wend.
- To elapse, to pass; to slip away. (Compare go by.)
- To be spent or used up.
- To belong (somewhere).
- To (begin to) date or have sex with (a particular race).
- To make the (specified) sound.
- To fit.
- To urinate or defecate.
- To tend (toward a result).
- To be lost.
- To have (final) authority; to be authoritative.
- I woke up just before the clock went.
- To take (a particular part or share); to participate in to the extent of.
- Let's go halves on this.
- Synonyms: crumble, collapse, disintegrate, give way
- To continuously or habitually be in a state.
- I went at him with a knife.
- To be in general; to be usually; often in comparison to others of the same group.
- To enjoy. (Compare go for.)
- To attend.
- To be sold.
- To survive or get by; to last or persist for a stated length of time.
- Synonyms: become, turn, change into
- To move or travel in order to do something, or to do something while moving.
- To proceed (often in a specified manner, indicating the perceived quality of an event or state).
- To apply oneself; to undertake; to have as one's goal or intention. (Compare be going to.)
- To navigate (to a file or folder on a computer, a site on the internet, a memory, etc).
- To be given, especially to be assigned or allotted.
- To sound; to make a noise.
- To leave; to move away.
- To extend (from one point in time or space to another).
- To turn out, to result; to come to (a certain result).
- To come to (a certain condition or state).
- To start; to begin (an action or process).
- To work (through or over), especially mentally.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:urinate, see also Thesaurus:defecate
- To attack.
- To say (something, aloud or to oneself). (Often used in present tense.)
- To date.
- Yesterday was the second-wettest day on record; you have to go all the way back to 1896 to find a day when more rain fell.
- Synonyms: function, work, operate
- To break down or decay.
- To be accepted.
- We've only gone twenty miles today.
- To be valid.
- To have a certain record.
- To take a turn, especially in a game.
- To make an effort, to subject oneself (to something).
- To be out.
- To resort (to).
- To move (a particular distance, or in a particular fashion).
- To yield or weigh.
- Those babies go five tons apiece.
- To be discarded or disposed of.
- To follow or proceed according to (a course or path).
- To lead (to a place); to give access to.
- To be expressed or composed (a certain way).
- Anything goes around here.
- Why don’t you go with us?
- Let's go this way for a while.
- To end or disappear. (Compare go away.)
- To fight or attack.
- How long can you go without water?
- To offer, bid or bet an amount; to pay.
- To proceed (especially to do something foolish).
- To collapse or give way, to break apart.
- Expressing encouragement or approval.
- To become. (The adjective that follows usually describes a negative state.)
- To move or travel through time (either literally—in a fictional or hypothetical situation in which time travel is possible—or in one's mind or knowledge of the historical record). (See also go back.)
- To contribute to a (specified) end product or result.
- To die.
- To work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required).
- To assume the obligation or function of; to be, to serve as.
- To travel or pass along.
- To be compatible, especially of colors or food and drink.
verb
verb
- To take sparingly.
- To try by eating a little; to eat a small quantity of.
- To sample the flavor of something orally.
- To identify (a flavor) by sampling something orally.
- To experience.
- To have a taste; to excite a particular sensation by which flavor is distinguished.
noun
- The sense that consists in the perception and interpretation of this sensation.
- A person's implicit set of preferences, especially esthetic, though also culinary, sartorial, etc.
- A small sample of food, drink, or recreational drugs.
- One of the sensations produced by the tongue in response to certain chemicals; the quality of giving this sensation.
- Personal preference; liking; predilection.
- A small amount of experience with something that gives a sense of its quality as a whole.
- A kind of narrow and thin silk ribbon.
verb
noun
- The glass circling the tip of a blowpipe or punty, such as the residual glass after detaching a blown vessel, or the lower part of a gather.
- A spot; a defilement.
- Confusion, turmoil.
- Hard work.
- The excess material which adheres to the top, base, or rim of a glass object when it is cut or knocked off from a blowpipe or punty, or from the mold-filling process. Typically removed after annealing as part of the finishing process (e.g. scored and snapped off).
- The metallic oxide from a blowpipe which has adhered to a glass object.
verb
adv
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