bang away
banged away; banging away; bangs away
intransitive verb
1 : to work with determined effort
//students banging away at their homework
2 : to attack persistently
police are going to keep banging away at you— Erle Stanley Gardner
Synonyms & Antonyms for dainty
Synonyms: Synonyms
- beaver (away),
- dig (away),
- drudge,
- endeavor,
- fag,
- grub,
- hump,
- hustle,
- labor,
- moil,
- peg (away),
- plod,
- plow,
- plug,
- slave,
- slog,
- strain,
- strive,
- struggle,
- sweat,
- toil,
- travail,
- tug,
- work
First Known Use of bang away
1818, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Dictionary Entries near bang away
More Synonyms and Antonyms ofbang away
to devote serious and sustained effort
- the design team has been banging away at that project for months
- beaver (away),
- dig (away),
- drudge,
- endeavor,
- fag,
- grub,
- hump,
- hustle,
- labor,
- moil,
- peg (away),
- plod,
- plow,
- plug,
- slave,
- slog,
- strain,
- strive,
- struggle,
- sweat,
- toil,
- travail,
- tug,
- work
- bum,
- chill,
- dally,
- dillydally,
- footle,
- goldbrick,
- goof (off),
- hack (around),
- hang (around or out),
- idle,
- laze,
- loaf,
- lounge,
- shirk,
- slack (off),
- veg out
- dabble,
- doodle,
- fool around,
- fribble,
- goof (around),
- hang,
- hang about
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[British],
- mess around,
- monkey (around),
- play,
- potter (around),
- putter (around),
- trifle