| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | 1. One who works or toils tirelessly: drudge, fag, plodder, slave. Informal : grind, workhorse. See WORK. 2. Slang. Something fit to be eaten: aliment, bread, comestible, diet, edible, esculent, fare, food, foodstuff, meat, nourishment, nurture, nutriment, nutrition, pabulum, pap, provender, provision (used in plural), sustenance, victual. Slang : chow, eats. See INGESTION. | | VERB: | 1. To break, turn over, or remove (earth or sand, for example) with or as if with a tool: delve, dig, excavate, scoop, shovel, spade. See ENTER. 2. To do tedious, laborious, and sometimes menial work: drudge, plod, slave, slog. Informal : grind. See WORK.
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