| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | 1. The use of energy to do something: effort, endeavor, exertion, pain (used in plural), striving, struggle, trouble, while. Informal : elbow grease. See WORK. 2. The act, condition, or effect of exerting force on someone or something: pressure, stress, tension. See PUSH. | | VERB: | To exert one's mental or physical powers, usually under difficulty and to the point of exhaustion: drive, fag, labor, moil, strive, sweat, toil, travail, tug, work. Idioms: break one's back (or neck) . See WORK.
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