DRUDGING

drudging, laboring, labouring, toiling

(adjective) doing arduous or unpleasant work; “drudging peasants”; “the bent backs of laboring slaves picking cotton”; “toiling coal miners in the black deeps”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Verb

drudging

present participle of drudge

Source: Wiktionary


DRUDGE

Drudge, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Drudged; p. pr. & vb. n. Drudging.] Etym: [OE. druggen; prob not akin to E. drag, v. t., but fr. Celtic; cf. Ir. drugaire a slave or drudge.]

Definition: 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.

Drudge, v. t.

Definition: To consume laboriously; -- with away. Rise to our toils and drudge away the day. Otway.

Drudge, n.

Definition: One who drudges; one who works hard in servile employment; a mental servant. Milton.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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GUILLOTINE

(verb) kill by cutting the head off with a guillotine; “The French guillotined many Vietnamese while they occupied the country”


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