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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | compete, fight |
| Synonyms: | argue, battle, clash, confront, contest, controvert, cope, dispute, emulate, encounter, face, give all one's got, give one's all, go after, go for, go for broke, go for it, go for jugular, grapple, have at, jockey for position, jostle, knock oneself out, litigate, lock horns, make play for, meet, mix it up with, oppose, oppugn, push, push for, resist, rival, scramble for, shoot at, shoot for, skirmish, stand, strive, struggle, tangle with, tug, vie, withstand |
| Antonyms: | abandon, desert, give up, leave, retreat |
| Main Entry: | toil |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | work hard |
| Synonyms: | drive, drudge, grind, knock oneself out, labor, moil, peg away, plod, plug, push oneself, slave, strain, strive, struggle, sweat, tug, work, work like a dog |
| Antonyms: | idle, laze, neglect |
| Main Entry: | try |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | attempt |
| Synonyms: | aim, aspire, attack, bear down, chip away at, compete, contend, contest, do one's best, drive for, endeavor, essay, exert oneself, go after, go all out, go for, have a crack, have a go, have a shot, have a stab, have a whack, knock oneself out, labor, lift a finger, make a bid, make a pass at, make an attempt, make an effort, propose, put oneself out, risk, seek, shoot for, speculate, strive, struggle, tackle, undertake, venture, vie for, work, wrangle |
| Notes: | an endeavor is a purposeful or industrious undertaking that requires effort; try is an attempt or effort |
| Antonyms: | abstain |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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| Main Entry: | toil |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
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amain, elaborate, energetic, epitonic, faffle, gymnastic, hard, hard at work, hardscrabble, industrious, insudate, laboriferous, laboring, laborious, laboristic, moliminous, on the stretch, operose, painstaking, palestric, panurgic, strained, strenuous, toilsome, troublesome, trusatile, uphill, wearisome, womanfully
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