slog

🇺🇸 /slɑːɡ/ 🇬🇧 /slɒɡ/
Frequency
Difficulty
Tags TOP20000
verb
R

to work hard at something, even if it's boring or difficult

My mother slogged all her life for us.

R

to move forward with effort, like walking through thick bushes

He started to slog his way through the undergrowth.

R

to hit a ball hard, but not very skillfully

He slogged the ball across the field.

noun
R

a period of hard work or effort

Writing the book took ten months of hard slog.

translation

v. to work hard at something, even if it's boring or difficult; to move forward with effort, like walking through thick bushes; to hit a ball hard, but not very skillfully
n. a period of hard work or effort

Word Forms

Past slogged
3rd Present slogs
Progressive slogging
Plural slogs
Perfect slogged