to slog
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6.7
- verb
- /slɔg/
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- She had to slog through several drafts before finalizing her thesis.
- slog your way
- slog along
- slog through the day
It's it's you can be slogging it out quite a bit.
- It's it's you can be slogging it out quite a bit.
- It's not it's hard slogging and it's it's a lot of work.
Examples
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But you do have to slog in the hours in the beginning.
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Hour after hour just falls away as you slog through Pandora.
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Now, if I were getting paid, I would be happy to slog through some poor films and write about them.
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I will continue to try to slog through the rest of Chapter 1.
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I think I left that bed ten pounds lighter, let's say, and just in time to slog through finals.
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ROCKS: Just got to grit your teeth and slog through it.
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Of course there are fellow bloggers who will slog through the garbage.
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Is it OK to forget your passion and continue slogging in a job that you don't like?
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After I slog through Liberal Fascism, I'll send you some books on fascism that you might find interesting.
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They're willing to slog through the driest deserts and deadliest jungles to recover the rapidly disappearing remains of our collective past.
Academic text (2007)
Synonyms
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1.0
To move forward slowly while making steady progress
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3.7
To work hard for a long time at a dull or repeated task
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5.3
To work very hard for a long time
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2.7
To work hard on difficult physical tasks
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6.9
To work regularly at a trade or skill
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3.4
Spend a lot of time doing hard, tiring tasks
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5.2
To work slowly and steadily on a difficult task
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4.8
To work hard for a long time on something
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7.0
To work hard at boring, repetitive tasks for a long time
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7.7
To work hard for a long time on a difficult task without stopping
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5.6
To work slowly and steadily through a task despite finding it hard
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6.3
Work hard for a long time on something, often before an exam or deadline
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9.9
To work very hard, often at a physical or long job
To keep working for a long time on something difficult or boring
To keep working hard on a difficult or long task
To work very hard doing physical or unpleasant jobs for a long time
To work hard and continue when things are difficult
To do very hard, long tasks until you are very tired
Antonyms
How Hard
Surface Forms
Etymology
Slog probably comes from old words that meant a heavy, repeated hit, so a helpful way to remember it is to think of the familiar word slug 'to hit'. That's why to 'slog' at a task means to work hard and steadily over a long time.