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21bring oneself — verb cause to undertake a certain action, usually used in the negative (Freq. 3) He could not bring himself to call his parents • Hypernyms: ↑coerce, ↑hale, ↑squeeze, ↑pressure, ↑force • Verb Frames …
22push one's way — force oneself through …
23work — n 1. labor, toil, exertion, effort, endeavor, exercise; travail, drudgery, slavery, sweat, moil, grind; handwork, spadework, legwork; industry, diligence, trouble, pains; stress, strain, Inf. elbow grease; discipline, drill, workout, exercising,… …
24impose — I (enforce) verb bid, bind, burden, charge, coerce, command, compel, conscript, constrain, decree, demand, dictate, direct, drive, enact, encumber, enjoin, exact, execute, extort, force upon, impel, imponere, iniungere, insist upon, lay upon,… …
25thrust — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. push, drive, shove, propel; lunge, plunge, ram; stab, pierce; compel, drive, force; interpose, interject. n. blow, jab, poke; attack, sortie; dig; repartee; power. See impulse. II (Roget s IV) n. 1.… …
26intrude — [in tro͞od′] vt. intruded, intruding [L intrudere < in , in + trudere, to thrust, push: see THREAT] 1. to push or force (something in or upon) 2. to force (oneself or one s thoughts) upon others without being asked or welcomed 3. Geol. to… …
27labor — n 1. work, employment, job, occupation, living, livelihood, means of support. 2. toil, travail, sweat of one s brow, moil, drudgery, grind, menial work; hard work or toil, hard labor, slavery; exertion, effort, strain, struggle, laboriousness,… …
28plod — v 1. trudge, pace, tramp, walk heavily, lumber, Inf. galumph; drag oneself along, move laboriously, shuffle, shamble, drag one s feet; walk on or over, tread, step on, stamp, Inf. stomp, crush, trample. 2. drudge, work or work hard, toil, moil,… …
29toil — I n 1. labor, travail, sweat of one s brow, Inf. elbow grease; moil, drudgery, grind, menial work; hard work, hard labor, slavery; exertion, effort, strain, struggle, laboriousness, plodding, Inf. plugging, pegging; industry, industriousness,… …
30peg — n 1. pin, Carpentry. dowel pin, thole or tholepin; nail, spike, brad, skewer, rivet, staple, tack, point; screw, bolt, toggle bolt, anchor bolt; hook, hanger; marker, post, stake, stick, pale, picket; stop, stopper, stopple, plug, cork, bung,… …
