| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | 1. A rather short period: bit1, space, spell3, time. See BIG. 2. The use of energy to do something: effort, endeavor, exertion, pain (used in plural), strain1, striving, struggle, trouble. Informal : elbow grease. See WORK. | | VERB: | To pass (time) without working or in avoiding work. Also used with away: dawdle (away), fiddle away, idle (away), kill1, trifle away, waste, wile (away). See INDUSTRIOUS.
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