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working into the ground

working into the ground is the present participle and gerund of work into the ground.

Meaning of work into the ground

Verb

work into the ground (third-person singular simple present works into the ground, present participle working into the ground, simple past and past participle worked into the ground)

  1. (idiomatic, transitive) To exhaust through heavy labour.

Questions about working into the ground

What is working into the ground the present participle and gerund of?
Working into the ground is the present participle and gerund of work into the ground.

Words near working into the ground in the dictionary

  1. working horses
  2. working hours
  3. working hypotheses
  4. working hypothesis
  5. working in
  6. working into the ground
  7. working knowledge
  8. working language
  9. working languages
  10. working life
  11. working like a dog

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Adapted from Wiktionary: working into the ground (page history and authors); work into the ground (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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