laboring

Words with a similar base: laboring

'laboring'

[tug.v.02] as in: strive and make an effort to reach a goal

Examples:
She tugged for years to make a decent living
We have to push a little to make the deadline!
She is driving away at her doctoral thesis

'laboring'

[labor.v.02] as in: work hard

Examples:
She was digging away at her math homework
Lexicographers drudge all day long

'laboring'

[labor.v.03] as in: undergo the efforts of childbirth

'laboring'

[drudging.s.01] as in: doing arduous or unpleasant work

Examples:
drudging peasants
the bent backs of laboring slaves picking cotton
toiling coal miners in the black deeps

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