BETOILING Synonyms

• material resulting from the process of grinding

• a harsh and strident sound (as of the grinding of gears)

• the wearing down of rock particles by friction due to water or wind or ice

• doing arduous or unpleasant work

• hard monotonous routine work

• the act of walking with a slow heavy gait

• (of movement) slow and laborious

• engaged in a struggle to overcome especially poverty or obscurity

• the process of the sweat glands of the skin secreting a salty fluid

• doing arduous or unpleasant work

• a mine or quarry that is being or has been worked

• actively engaged in paid work

• adequate for practical use; especially sufficient in strength or numbers to accomplish something

• adopted as a temporary basis for further work

• (of e.g. a machine) performing or capable of performing

• serving to permit or facilitate further work or activity

• put to use

• have and exercise

• make a great effort at a mental or physical task

• informal terms for a meal

• a soft thick wormlike larva of certain beetles and other insects

• ask for and get free; be a parasite

• search about busily

• work doggedly or persistently

• walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud

• strike heavily, especially with the fist or a bat