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slogging away

slogging away is the present participle and gerund of slog away.

Meaning of slog away

Verb

slog away (third-person singular simple present slogs away, present participle slogging away, simple past and past participle slogged away)

  1. (informal, intransitive) to work hard at something, often for a long time and in a tedious or exhausting manner
    • The good students who slog away and do not concern themselves with writing - one can despise them and disdain their victories. But such victories are given qualitative value when it is an artist who carries them off[…]2021 December 5, Jean-Paul Sartre, The Family Idiot: Gustave Flaubert, 1821-1857, Volume 3, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 59

Questions about slogging away

What is slogging away the present participle and gerund of?
Slogging away is the present participle and gerund of slog away.

Words near slogging away in the dictionary

  1. slogged one's guts out
  2. slogger
  3. sloggers
  4. slogginess
  5. slogging
  6. slogging away
  7. slogging one's guts out
  8. sloggingly
  9. sloggings
  10. sloggish
  11. sloggorne

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