slog away en · VERB
Etymology
From slog + away.
Meanings
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(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:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| slogging away | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| slogged away | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| slogged away | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| slogs away | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic |