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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]
Drudge \Drudge\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Drudged; p. pr. & vb. n.
Drudging.] [OE. druggen; prob not akin to E. drag, v. t.,
but fr. Celtic; cf. Ir. drugaire a slave or drudge.]
To perform menial work; to labor in mean or unpleasant
offices with toil and fatigue.
[1913 Webster]
He gradually rose in the estimation of the booksellers
for whom he drudged. --Macaulay.
[1913 Webster]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) : [ web1913 ]
Drudge \Drudge\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Drudged; p. pr. & vb. n.
Drudging.] [OE. druggen; prob not akin to E. drag, v. t.,
but fr. Celtic; cf. Ir. drugaire a slave or drudge.]
To perform menial work; to labor in mean or unpleasant
offices with toil and fatigue.
He gradually rose in the estimation of the booksellers
for whom he drudged. --Macaulay.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 : [ wn ]
drudging
adj : doing arduous or unpleasant work; "drudging peasants"; "the
bent backs of laboring slaves picking cotton"; "toiling
coal miners in the black deeps" [syn: laboring, labouring,
toiling]
From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]
drudging
vb.
(present participle of en drudge nocat=1)
From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]
drudging
vb.
(present participle of en drudge nocat=1)
From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]
drudging
vb.
(present participle of en drudge nocat=1)
From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]
drudging
vb.
(present participle of en drudge nocat=1)
From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 : [ freedict:eng-ara ]
Drudging /dɹˈʌdʒɪŋ/
الكدح
From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-ces ]
drudging /dɹˈʌdʒɪŋ/
vysilující
From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-ces ]
drudging /dɹˈʌdʒɪŋ/
namáhavý
From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 : [ freedict:eng-deu ]
drudging /dɹˈʌdʒɪŋ/
schwer arbeitend, schuftend, rackernd
Synonyms: working hard, labouring, laboring, slaving away, toiling, toiling away, moiling, travailing
see: work hard, labour, labor, slave away, toil, toil away, moil, drudge, travail, worked hard, laboured, labored, slaved away, toiled, toiled away, moiled, drudged, travailed
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