| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | A sudden motion, such as a pull: jerk, lurch, snap, twitch, wrench, yank. See MOVE, PUSH. | | VERB: | 1. To exert one's mental or physical powers, usually under difficulty and to the point of exhaustion: drive, fag, labor, moil, strain1, strive, sweat, toil, travail, work. Idioms: break one's back (or neck) . See WORK. 2. To exert force so as to move (something) toward the source of the force: drag, draw, haul, pull, tow. See PUSH.
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