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Verb
Heavily occupied, or busily involved in an important activity
To be irritating or upsetting, typically with repeated or unpleasant acts
Present participle for to develop or perform work on something
Present participle for to persuade or exercise influence on someone
Present participle for to perform a series of actions on something
Present participle for to influence, usually emotionally
Present participle for to improve on
Present participle for to act on, or put into action, a request
Present participle for to force someone into doing something
Present participle for to design or plan an approach for a given task or project
Present participle for to carry out duties as a member of
Present participle for to flatter or compliment excessively
Present participle for to serve as a member of a council, jury, or other official body
Present participle for to practice a skill to improve one's command of it
Present participle for to shape or form a given material
Present participle for to find an answer or solution to a problem or question
Present participle for to energetically devote, or begin devoting, effort to something
Present participle for to fix or repair something
Present participle for to implore someone to do something
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Deeply engaged in a given activity
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Heavily occupied, or busily involved in an important activity
in the throes of
grappling with
struggling with
tackling
wrestling with
enduring
labouring at
living with
slaving at
toiling at
toiling with
weathering
working at
braving
busy with
confronting
facing
having to cope with
occupied in
occupied with
absorbed in
employed in
engrossed in
immersed in
in the course of
in the middle of
in the midst of
in the process of
involved in
participating in
preoccupied with
taken up by
taken up with
taking part in
carrying on
conducting
following
practicing
US
practising
UK
pursuing
Verb
▲
To be irritating or upsetting, typically with repeated or unpleasant acts
annoying
harassing
aggravating
antagonizing
US
bugging
exasperating
galling
getting
goading
irking
irritating
narking
nettling
peeving
pestering
riling
ruffling
vexing
frustrating
nagging
upsetting
angering
bothering
displeasing
disturbing
hassling
incensing
infuriating
maddening
making angry
needling
provoking
teasing
agitating
getting to
incommoding
making cross
molesting
perturbing
troubling
worrying
badgering
bedeviling
US
bedevilling
UK
breaking
chafing
distressing
enraging
frosting
gnawing
grating
harrying
henpecking
nudging
persecuting
piquing
plaguing
riding
rubbing up the wrong way
spiting
beleaguering
burning up
driving crazy
driving to distraction
graveling
gravelling
rankling
antagonising
UK
bumming out
driving mad
eating
getting at
getting someone's goat
getting under your skin
getting up your nose
giving someone grief
giving someone the hump
hacking off
making your blood boil
teeing off
ticking off
winding up
cheesing off
driving round the bend
driving round the twist
driving up the wall
egging on
firing up
getting in your hair
getting on your wick
getting someone's dander up
getting your back up
hacking you off
heating up
making someone see red
making waves
turning off
asking for it
getting on your nerves
giving someone the pip
putting your back up
hitting where one lives
hounding
chivvying
heckling
giving a hard time
tormenting
baiting
bullying
dogging
importuning
mithering
picking at
bending someone's ear
picking on
harping on at
keeping on at
keeping after
deviling
devilling
hectoring
prodding
finding fault with
pecking at
going on at
grumbling at
keeping complaining to
moaning at
breathing down someone's neck
fretting
raising your hackles
rasping
miffing
humping
exacerbating
putting someone's nose out of joint
rubbing the wrong way
getting your dander up
putting out
rattling someone's cage
getting your goat
ruffling one's feathers
getting up someone's nose
making somebody's hackles rise
getting across
besieging
chivying
tantalizing
US
dunning
insisting
reminding
driving you up the wall
intruding upon
messing with
tantalising
UK
getting on one's nerves
criticizing
US
scolding
pressing
berating
giving the business
eating at
insisting on
upbraiding
urging
egging
criticising
UK
busting someone's balls
finding fault
moaning on at
taking it out on
busting chops
carping at
stressing
stressing out
bullyragging
despoiling
intimidating
macerating
foraying
perplexing
trying
jerking around
paining
straining
pursuing
giving a bad time
noodging
rattling one's cage
attacking
burning
gnawing at
afflicting
oppressing
torturing
besetting
harrowing
discomposing
disquieting
burdening
racking
agonizing
US
rattling
disconcerting
hurting
griping
flustering
agonising
UK
cursing
offending
itching
taunting
grieving
victimizing
US
concerning
unsettling
fussing
fazing
anguishing
victimising
UK
niggling
wounding
ailing
discomfiting
distracting
discommoding
taxing
alarming
flurrying
unnerving
causing suffering to
excruciating
terrorizing
US
aggrieving
ill-treating
abusing
maltreating
saddening
mistreating
dismaying
terrorising
UK
depressing
haunting
inconveniencing
tyrannizing
US
discomforting
discountenancing
frazzling
distempering
exercising
weighing down
tyrannising
UK
ridiculing
embarrassing
ragging
insulting
affronting
unhinging
browbeating
affecting
alaruming
derailing
hagriding
abrading
roiling
undoing
discombobulating
mocking
appalling
ribbing
weirding out
freaking out
putting down
chaffing
blighting
confusing
mortifying
hazing
outraging
inflaming
throwing
crucifying
frightening
confounding
disgusting
having it in for
grating on
making anxious
lying heavy on
razzing
pressurizing
US
crushing
domineering
smiting
interrupting
scaring
pricking
pushing around
leaning on
discriminating against
stinging
dominating
martyring
preying on
rankling with
making things hot for someone
weighing heavily on
stirring up
throwing off balance
causing trouble to
pressurising
UK
exploiting
joshing
deriding
bantering
dejecting
subjugating
guying
testing
bewildering
chagrining
wringing
disrupting
pushing about
gibing
injuring
wronging
tiring
disheartening
scourging
assailing
overwhelming
cowing
stewing
shaking
making uneasy
sickening
tearing
treating harshly
pothering
having a down on
making miserable
driving bananas
taking the mickey
ragging on
weighing on
ill-using
trying your patience
nagging at
jibing at
taking the piss out of
making fun of
causing anguish to
making wretched
eating away at
walking all over
suppressing
humiliating
kidding
roasting
facing
satirizing
US
jiving
joking
rallying
twitting
confronting
harming
festering
dispiriting
stretching
moving
quizzing
leading on
abasing
disappointing
funning
belittling
discouraging
menacing
fearing
punishing unfairly
chiacking
wearying
misusing
flummoxing
rending
overpowering
chiding
sweating
nonplussing
dashing
enslaving
stabbing
overbearing
puzzling
shucking
addling
smoking
gripping
panicking
rotting
nauseating
sledging
bringing down
casting down
punishing
spooking
pushing
boring
searing
getting down
beating
flooring
indisposing
dissatisfying
stirring
causing anxiety to
making it hot for someone
having on
making a monkey of
flouting at
putting into a flap
flipping out
putting someone off their stroke
poking mullock at
hanging over
jangling
taking advantage of
making nervous
kicking around
making uncomfortable
grinding down
chastening
tyrannizing over
causing someone to lose their composure
getting across someone
causing discomfort to
singling out
trolling
shaking up
goofing on
jeering at
satirising
UK
throwing into a tizz
grinding
imposing on
cutting up
making someone fed up
hurting somebody's feelings
poking fun at
poking borak at
making sport of
putting pressure on
laughing at
putting the squeeze on
messing over
wearing
mixing up
riding roughshod over
putting on
causing concern to
plying
rubbing you up the wrong way
causing agony to
cutting to the quick
slinging off at
preying on your mind
scoffing at
wearing out
sending up
barraging
causing anxiety
putting off
buffeting
making jokes about
buffetting
fooling around
showing antagonism to
disapproving of
soliciting
petitioning
carping
keeping at
telling off
disobliging
startling
feeling ill will towards
showing ill will towards
bearing a grudge towards
browning off
souring
calling names
excoriating
running up the wrong way
getting your hackles up
giving someone hell
squeezing
pushing someon's buttons
possessing
messing
niggling at
getting on the nerves of
getting in the hair of
getting on someone
touching
harping on
prompting
sapping
draining
exhausting
frenzying
deranging
arousing hostility in
jeering
caviling
US
cavilling
UK
kidding around
unquieting
making fretful
making restless
shocking
causing offense
dampening spirits
breaking one's heart
disparaging
desolating
making it tough for
strapping
doing a number on
arousing anxiety in
pushing buttons
nit-picking
inciting
making blue
putting into a funk
breaking the heart of
dragging down
putting a damper on
barracking
booing
violating
manipulating
madding
iring
embittering
enflaming
grilling
foiling
thwarting
jarring on
setting on edge
putting on edge
hitting a sour note
getting on
despairing
sticking it to
giving it to
dishing it out
dishing out
overcharging
reviling
reproaching
bringing pressure to bear on
setting on
stirring the pot
sending into a rage
taking a rise out of
starting
getting a rise out of
making trouble
setting off
working into lather
belabouring
UK
becoming bored
grating at
having had enough
trying the patience of
making discontented
losing patience
disgruntling
fraying
tattering
eroding
shouting down
causing annoyance to
causing resentment to
throwing off
keying up
incapacitating
crazing
rocking the boat
laying up
cramping
turning on
getting someone
turning
flipping
debilitating
making a scene
curdling
piercing
cutting
scratching around
yapping at
searching high heaven
convulsing
overriding
rousting
petting
tiffing
huffing
crabbing
lousing up
begrudging
getting even
hanging up
upsetting the applecart
grudging
hissing
sticking in one's craw
setting one's teeth on edge
wearing on
obsessing
eating up
steaming up
dumbfounding
terrifying
accosting
biting
shaming
abashing
sweating out
wearing down
scouring
sticking the knife into
rocking
causing pain to
hunting
devastating
exiling
expelling
dragooning
getting the knife into
tiring out
making severe demands on
making demands on
putting a strain on
playing cat and mouse
putting through wringer
rubbing salt in wound
dissing
bamboozling
baffling
befuddling
causing anguish
causing someone distress
causing pain
gutting
causing to panic
entangling
hampering
surprising
shouting at
butting in
shouting catcalls at
targetting
making game of
targeting
aggressing
dishonoring
US
dishonouring
UK
raging
wearing away
biting into
gnawing away at
scraping away
wearing to shreds
jumping on one's case
giving the needle
falling on
falling upon
starting in on
horning in on
intruding on
butting in on
interfering with
barging in on
deflating
humbling
belaboring
US
bombarding
catching off balance
dizzying
catching unawares
astonishing
starting on
fiddling with
toying with
threatening
manhandling
going for jugular
martyrizing
giving no quarter
dumping on
laying a bad trip on
doing an injustice to
stepping on the toes of
exciting
immolating
using
demonizing
US
destroying
weakening
horrifying
fuddling
swindling
hoodwinking
tricking
having your knife into
fleecing
cheating
stacking the deck
demonising
UK
subduing
crossing
hindering
impeding
stumping
throwing into tizzy
playing the heavy with
brutalising
UK
mishandling
brutalizing
US
making someone eat humble pie
disgracing
taking down
demeaning
degrading
taking the wind out
getting one's comeuppance
taking down a peg
putting to shame
repressing
overcoming
hegemonizing
mastering
subjecting
blackmailing
bleeding
conning
keeping down
tensing
overtaxing
pressuring
overstretching
putting screws to
handicapping
beating down
encumbering
weighing heavy upon
ruling with an iron hand
bringing someone to their knees
smothering
ruling over
trampling
overloading
putting upon
ruling with a rod of iron
coercing
bringing under the yoke
trampling on
ruling
saddling
holding sway over
trampling underfoot
despotizing
holding down
bringing to heel
overthrowing
forcing
traumatizing
US
daunting
striking
taking
visiting
putting on trial
crunching
tensing up
overdoing
pushing to the limit
overextending
traumatising
UK
making tense
causing to feel mental strain
causing to feel emotional strain
putting in traction
making gloomy
lying
making despondent
making desolate
taking the heart out of
spoofing
slamming
snapping
sounding
pulling one's leg
messing around
pulling someone's leg
swipeing at
flirting with
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Verb
▲
Present participle for to develop or perform work on something
developing
honing
improving
perfecting
practising
UK
practicing
US
building up
working up
enhancing
refining
bettering
elevating
polishing
ameliorating
polishing up on
brushing up
training
advancing
lifting
progressing
cultivating
growing
boosting
furthering
enriching
propelling
bolstering
building
taking the next step
gaining ground
making strides
devoting oneself to
getting better at
building on
working hard at
polishing up
brushing up on
forming
going over
complementing
optimizing
US
meliorating
adding value to
supplementing
fine-tuning
revamping
strengthening
smartening
touching up
taking to the next level
souping up
embellishing
sprucing up
fortifying
optimising
UK
raising
pushing ahead
launching
promoting
pushing on
hastening
prospering
getting with it
pressing on
forging ahead with
multiplying
pressing forward
moving forward
thriving
continuing ahead
bringing forward
making headway with
coming on
getting ahead of
taking it to the next level
expanding
making progress
making headway
flourishing
maturing
upgrading
increasing
blossoming
coming along
burgeoning
succeeding
evolving
coming of age
forging ahead
augmenting
moving ahead
booming
scaling up
being successful
getting on well
bearing fruit
taking steps forward
covering ground
going forward
getting ahead
updating
shaping up
intensifying
modernising
UK
modernizing
US
transforming
revolutionizing
US
going great guns
stepping up
blooming
shining
extending
rising
revolutionising
UK
bourgeoning
getting better
emerging
arriving
getting on
flowering
ripening
working out
becoming better
going well
making inroads
doing well
pushing forward
moving onward
developing well
faring well
making it
moving forward in leaps and bounds
flying high
shooting up
spreading your wings
going to town
getting places
turning out well
going places
starring
standing out
unfolding
figuring
triumphing
rocketing
prevailing
leading
performing
skyrocketing
featuring
moving on
enlarging
glowing
excelling
sparkling
growing up
rolling up
moving
pushing
changing
elaborating
unrolling
getting somewhere
running riot
standing out in a crowd
stealing the show
wearing the crown
having a gift for
making the big time
having a gift
hitting it big
reigning supreme
coming into your own
spreading
altering
metamorphosing
driving
going
proceeding
transmogrifying
differentiating
heading
adapting
straightening up
shooting
speeding
trucking
continuing
educing
deriving
stepping it up
taking it up a notch
taking it to the limit
levelling up
picking up the pace
increasing one's intensity
turning it up
elevating one's game
kicking it up a notch
boosting one's game
raising one's game
rising to the next level
leveling up
driving forward
cranking it up
pulling ahead
propelling forward
stepping up one's game
turning over new leaf
making first rate
fostering
improving on
marching on
opening out
going forth
adapting yourself
working one's way
profiting
aggrandizing
uplifting
magnifying
smartening up
reinforcing
straightening out
beefing up
heightening
fast-tracking
reenforcing
amplifying
compounding
scoring
battening
waxing
producing
yielding
mushrooming
picking up
cracking on
doing wonders
catching on
making good
going ahead
becoming rich
growing rich
growing well
making good speed
having legs
making a go
growing vigorously
getting there
more ❯
“After a long shift, and when most folks were in bed, Cameron went home to
work on
his secret project.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to persuade or exercise influence on someone
influencing
persuading
coaxing
swaying
cajoling
manipulating
pressuring
wheedling
leaning on
putting pressure on
putting the squeeze on
softening up
twisting someone's arm
inveigling
blarneying
beguiling
sweet-talking
soft-soaping
blandishing
palavering
enticing
luring
buttering up
talking into
inducing
tempting
urging
sweetening up
winning over
talking
flattering
charming
convincing
worming
seducing
getting
arguing
coercing
conning
wooing
prevailing on
arguing into
smooth-talking
getting round
alluring
pressing
wangling
bringing round
snowing
arm-twisting
finagling
soaping
hooking
maneuvering
US
oiling
bartering
importuning
prevailing upon
manoeuvring
UK
roping in
decoying
soliciting
coming on
jawboning
encouraging
twisting one's arm
teasing
talking someone into something
soothing
pestering
plaguing
getting next to
jollying
bantering
getting around
working over
honeying
selling
softening
drawing
courting
making
prodding
reasoning
laying it on
spreading it on
kowtowing
more ❯
“Larry has volunteered to
work on
the boss to give us the rest of the day off.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to perform a series of actions on something
processing
preparing
transforming
treating
concocting
converting
dealing with
handling
managing
acting on
altering
making ready
refining
seeing to
taking care of
working
acting with
administering
advancing
attending to
effecting
sorting out
transitioning
maneuvering
US
manoeuvring
UK
optimising
UK
optimizing
US
performing on
reconditioning
redressing
repairing
adapting
adjusting
changing
metamorphosing
turning
varying
Verb
▲
Present participle for to influence, usually emotionally
affecting
influencing
touching
upsetting
altering
changing
impacting
modifying
striking
swaying
transforming
disturbing
overwhelming
perturbing
stirring
troubling
acting on
agitating
attacking
concerning
conditioning
damaging
devastating
distressing
grieving
hurting
infecting
involving
paining
saddening
shaping
controlling
determining
forming
governing
hitting
hitting hard
impressing
manipulating
moving
reaching
shaking
biasing
US
biassing
UK
deciding
exerting influence on
fazing
guiding
impacting on
striking at
throwing
bowling over
emotionally moving
having an effect on
impinging
inducing
inspiring
interesting
knocking back
marking
overcoming
prevailing
regarding
relating
shaking up
taking hold of
telling on
bearing upon
getting to
having an impact on
impinging upon
impressing on
knocking for six
prevailing over
making an impression on
tugging at your heartstrings
going to your head
turning someone's head
moulding
UK
molding
US
dictating
predisposing
constraining
interacting with
forecasting
regulating
ruling
directing
mastering
disciplining
underlying
shepherding
disposing
persuading
prejudicing
turning
getting the better of
being a factor in
holding in check
selling
colouring
UK
converting
prompting
motivating
convincing
slanting
inclining
jaundicing
conducting
coloring
US
hooking
cracking
bending
brainwashing
carrying
nobbling
bringing round
prevailing on
talking round
twisting one's arm
winning over
turning one's head
leading by the nose
sucking in
putting across
softening up
stimulating
getting through to
exciting
tainting
having a bearing on
filling with emotion
arousing
impassioning
making an impression
striking a chord
quickening
grabbing
getting
leaving an impression on
touching a chord
animating
getting through
registering with
carrying weight with
rubbing off on
injuring
corrupting
vitiating
destroying
afflicting
crippling
meddling
leaving a mark on
interfering with
interrupting
making an impact on
imposing
ruining
spoiling
marring
contaminating
impairing
demolishing
annihilating
ravaging
pertaining to
referring to
centering upon
belonging to
bearing on
compromising
harming
distorting
exerting an influence on
stretching
angling
skewing
warping
garbling
twisting
doctoring
steering
breaking
sabotaging
polluting
defiling
occurring
poisoning
crushing
weakening
blighting
debasing
wearing away
drawing
urging
bringing in
capturing
impelling
spurring
spreading to
playing havoc with
wreaking havoc on
striking down
doing damage to
more ❯
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Present participle for to improve on
bettering
improving
upgrading
progressing
raising
strengthening
ameliorating
brushing up
building on
elevating
enhancing
lifting
mending
promoting
rectifying
advancing
amending
augmenting
changing for the better
correcting
excelling
fixing up
honing
improving on
meliorating
refining
reforming
revamping
smartening up
straightening out
transcending
uplifting
amplifying
appreciating
boosting
furthering
increasing
perfecting
smartening
making better
touching up
fixing
fortifying
mitigating
redressing
assuaging
beefing up
fine-tuning
enriching
polishing
reenforcing
reinforcing
remediating
forwarding
helping
sharpening
preparing
grooming
developing
cultivating
tempering
building
growing
invigorating
optimizing
US
driving
endowing
consolidating
polishing up
inflating
tightening up
envigorating
making perfect
optimising
UK
boosting up
topping up
smoothing
illuming
propelling
stimulating
elaborating on
vitalizing
burnishing
fostering
stepping up
updating
giving a boost
expanding
building up
prospering
scaling up
aggrandizing
heightening
shaping up
magnifying
supplementing
fast-tracking
working up
intensifying
moving forward
making progress
making headway
compounding
making strides
extending
forging ahead
working out
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to act on, or put into action, a request
actioning
enacting
acting on
affecting
executing
accomplishing
applying
effecting
fulfilling
implementing
performing
actionizing
acting upon
carrying out
completing
effectuating
following up on
pursuing
putting into action
tackling
achieving
administering
enforcing
exercising
following
doing
finishing
operating
realising
UK
realizing
US
transacting
acting out
bringing to fruition
carrying through
carrying to completion
dealing with
putting into effect
starting in on
taking action on
taking care of
bringing about
delivering the goods
making happen
pulling off
putting in force
putting into practice
putting through
taking care of business
Verb
▲
Present participle for to force someone into doing something
dragooning
forcing
coercing
compelling
constraining
pressing
driving
impelling
pressuring
bullying
obliging
browbeating
harassing
intimidating
pressurising
UK
pressurizing
US
pushing
badgering
blackjacking
harrying
hounding
nagging
railroading
squeezing
bludgeoning
brainwashing
goading
leaning on
pestering
prodding
strong-arming
threatening
tyrannising
UK
tyrannizing
US
bulldozing
impressing
influencing
making
muscling
obligating
putting pressure on
sandbagging
using pressure on
bouncing
fast-talking
hustling
ramrodding
acting on
bringing pressure to bear on
prevailing on
putting under an obligation
putting the screws on
putting the squeeze on
cowing
terrorizing
US
menacing
terrorising
UK
press-ganging
urging
besetting
concussing
shotgunning
restricting
hindering
suppressing
repressing
provoking
steamrolling
worrying
twisting one's arm
high pressuring
putting the arm on
making an offer they can't refuse
kicking
domineering
dogging
bullyragging
hectoring
persuading
bogarting
blustering
buffaloing
overbearing
despotizing
enforcing
frightening
turning on the heat
riding roughshod
walking heavy
using strong-arm tactics on
mau-mauing
steamrollering
inducing
prompting
requiring
spurring
inciting
necessitating
encouraging
oppressing
pushing around
tormenting
persecuting
twisting someone's arm
instigating
plaguing
stirring
inspiring
motivating
causing
egging on
triggering
propelling
binding
putting up to
rousing
hassling
picking on
nudging
commanding
demanding
riding roughshod over
putting the heat on
moving
dominating
stimulating
whipping
spurring on
inveigling
leading
insisting on
firing up
exhorting
chivvying
cajoling
subjugating
pushing about
insisting
actuating
pricking
exacting
ordering
blackmailing
imposing
dictating
siccing
tightening the screws on
keying up
having someone do something
getting
awing
aweing
tempting
bothering
subduing
rallying
incentivizing
occasioning
advising
claiming
animating
arousing
bossing about
bossing around
overcoming
swaying
asking
restraining
riding
calling for
crushing
exciting
enjoining
challenging
imploring
inclining
convincing
victimizing
US
invigorating
sparking
soliciting
enslaving
importuning
rowelling
roweling
sounding
emboldening
galvanizing
US
breathing down someone's neck
beseeching
envigorating
galvanising
UK
coming at
lording it over
dragooning into
besieging
victimising
UK
expecting
entreating
trampling
browbeating into
making necessary
turning the screws on
putting screws to
putting the chill on
vexing
keeping down
imposing on
putting the frighteners on
holding down
pushing for
treating harshly
cracking down
ruling with a rod of iron
trampling underfoot
grinding down
ruling with an iron hand
bringing someone to their knees
compressing
scaring
terrifying
committing
squashing
condensing
constricting
leaning
unnerving
egging
shanghaiing
spooking
astricting
indebting
politicking
selling
wheedling
assailing
heckling
rooting
arguing
mistreating
antagonizing
US
taunting
chivying
putting heat on
leaving someone no option
antagonising
UK
mobilizing
US
inhibiting
stinging
inflaming
enticing
talking
putting through the wringer
working over
effecting
having
holding a gun to one's head
needling
troubling
pressurizing into
coercing into
predisposing
conditioning
mobilising
UK
directing
enthusing
determining
prevailing upon
tightening the screw on
turning the screw on
fomenting
lashing
titillating
rousting
making indebted
making it hot for someone
making things hot for someone
bringing pressure upon
bullying into
bludgeoning into
bringing force to bear on
terrorizing into
intimidating into
extorting
commandeering
orienting
promoting
admonishing
working up
begging
advocating
expediting
leaving someone no option but to
throwing your weight around
wresting
exerting
invoking
inspanning
recommending
making compulsory
forcing upon
warranting
adjuring
charging
disposing
coaxing
foisting
trying to persuade
speeding up
involving
impassioning
eliciting
putting the screws to
using force on
conscripting
urging by force
burdening
contracting
obtruding
choking
using duress on
applying
evoking
energizing
US
bringing
activating
steeling
inspiriting
railroading into
entailing
exerting force on
pouring it on
empowering
converting
exhilarating
heartening
vitalizing
impacting
uplifting
abusing
steamrollering into
pinning down
bearing down
putting the bite on
incentifying
helping
striking
energising
UK
refreshing
turning on
bulldozing into
exerting influence on
appealing to
bearing down on
going to town on
selling one on
putting squeeze on
bearing hard on
maltreating
taking
wanting
bearing
meaning
needing
behooving
craving
postulating
overawing
affrighting
wronging
pumping up
stirring up
suggesting to
boosting up
pepping up
whipping up
talking into
winning over
hinting to
cheering on
overwhelming
hegemonizing
mastering
ill-treating
overpowering
behoving
bringing pressure to bear upon
exploiting
subjecting
scourging
spiriting up
leaving no choice but to
scaring off
handicapping
straining
torturing
beating down
bringing under the yoke
annoying
encumbering
trampling on
ruling
weighing heavy upon
saddling
outraging
holding sway over
bringing to heel
putting down
chastening
tyrannizing over
overthrowing
distressing
smothering
walking all over
ruling over
overloading
taxing
putting upon
aggrieving
scaring the bejesus out of
acting upon
riding herd on
pressing for
requisitioning
seeking
requesting
ordering around
ordering about
dictating to
stipulating for
appealing for
pestering for
clamoring for
applying for
questing
petitioning for
baying for
laying claim to
impetrating
summoning
clamouring for
begging for
suing for
supplicating
badgering for
whistling for
nagging for
holding out for
praying for
inquiring about
asking for
hitting up
arrogating
domineering over
having someone under your thumb
treating brutally
ruling despotically
keeping under thumb
more ❯
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▲
Present participle for to design or plan an approach for a given task or project
developing
devising
brainstorming
drafting
carving out
coming up with
conceiving
concocting
contriving
cooking up
formulating
laying out
outlining
putting together
brewing
bringing
conjuring up
deciding
drawing up
dreaming up
drumming up
hammering out
innovating
inventing
making up
planning
plotting
putting up
starting up
throwing together
throwing up
trumping up
arranging
coining
determining
envisaging
envisioning
framing
hatching
imagining
modelling
UK
modeling
US
picturing
pioneering
pondering
projecting
ruminating
running up
sparking
speculating
strategizing
visualising
UK
visualizing
US
choreographing
getting
obtaining
sparking off
carrying out
churning out
cobbling together
cranking out
grinding out
manufacturing
tailoring
thrashing out
turning out
thinking of
thinking up
Verb
▲
Present participle for to carry out duties as a member of
serving
sitting on
performing duties on
carrying out duties on
having a place on
holding a place on
Verb
▲
Present participle for to flatter or compliment excessively
praising
flattering
complimenting
adoring
adulating
revering
venerating
elevating
glorifying
inveigling
lionising
UK
lionizing
US
stroking
bootlicking
cajoling
fawning over
gushing over
raving over
sweet-talking
worshipping
UK
worshiping
US
brownnosing
brown-nosing
building up
buttering up
falling all over
kissing one's feet
playing up to
putting on a pedestal
sucking up to
working over
complimenting excessively
laying it on thick
soft-soaping
spreading it on
blarneying
honeying
overpraising
puffing
massaging
belauding
softening
hero-worshipping
fawning on
creeping to
crawling to
charming
fawning
humouring
UK
flannelling
flanneling
humoring
US
admiring
panegyrizing
commending
oiling
lauding
snowing
beslavering
expressing admiration for
waxing lyrical about
paying tribute to
pandering to
paying blandishments to
paying court to
rubbing the right way
sweetening up
laying it on with a trowel
saying nice things about
making much of
persuading
coaxing
wheedling
courting
blandishing
kowtowing to
toadying to
abasing oneself to
prevailing on
demeaning oneself to
sucking up
truckling to
bowing and scrape to
rubbing up the right way
talking into
dancing attendance on
curry favouring with
keeping someone sweet
ingratiating oneself with
making up to
curry favoring
currying favour
getting on the right side of
prostrating oneself to
grovelling to
getting round
curry favoring with
groveling
US
grovelling
UK
smooth-talking
toadying
slavering
puffing up
buttering up to
catering to
stroking one's ego
exalting
soothing
fawning upon
roosing
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to serve as a member of a council, jury, or other official body
sitting
presiding
serving
working
presiding on
serving on
carrying out duties on
holding a seat on
having a seat
holding a seat
carrying out duties
having a seat on
Verb
▲
Present participle for to practice a skill to improve one's command of it
polishing
practicing
US
practising
UK
rehearsing
sharpening
exercising
drilling
honing
training
going over
tuning up
working at
working out
going through
improving performance
running through
walking through
dress rehearsing
repeating
perfecting
studying
refining
preparing
doing exercises
keeping your hand in
doing drills
running over
taking from the top
working
running down
doing again
warming up
having a practice session
trying out
recapping
recapitulating
having a trial performance
running lines
learning one's part
reading through
attempting
iterating
trying
building up
reciting
becoming seasoned
habituating
Verb
▲
Present participle for to shape or form a given material
working
forming
fashioning
handling
manipulating
molding
US
processing
shaping
dressing
kneading
plying
blending
forging
laboring
US
labouring
UK
mixing
modelling
UK
modeling
US
moulding
UK
squeezing
tending
caring for
Verb
▲
Present participle for to find an answer or solution to a problem or question
solving
unraveling
US
unravelling
UK
answering
deciphering
resolving
breaking
cracking
disentangling
settling
decoding
fathoming
fixing
rectifying
unriddling
unscrambling
untangling
brainstorming
divining
licking
remedying
unlocking
figuring out
getting
puzzling out
realising
UK
realizing
US
working out
doping out
finding an answer to
finding a solution to
finding the answer to
finding the solution to
riddling out
straightening out
thinking out
dealing with
deciding on
finding out
finding the key to
getting to the bottom of
making out
putting right
setting right
sorting out
sussing out
getting right
getting to the bottom
hitting upon
ironing out
patching up
determining a solution to
making a dent
panning out
smoothing over
putting to rights
setting to rights
getting around
Verb
▲
Present participle for to energetically devote, or begin devoting, effort to something
tackling
addressing
confronting
approaching
fielding
negotiating
undertaking
attacking
attempting
beginning
essaying
handling
managing
pursuing
trying
accepting
dealing with
attending to
embarking upon
engaging in
focusing on
getting to work at
grappling with
seeing to
setting about
starting on
taking on
addressing oneself to
applying oneself
applying oneself to
concentrating on
diving into
embarking on
getting to grips with
going about
having a go
launching into
taking care of
taking up
devoting oneself to
pitching into
taking forward
taking measures about
throwing yourself into
trying to solve
wading into
busying oneself with
coming to grips with
contending with
getting down to
getting stuck into
squaring off
turning to
wading in
becoming involved in
buckling down to
coping with
giving something a try
knuckling down to
making a run at
settling down to
trying to cope with
trying to deal with
trying to sort out
banging away at
getting cracking on
giving something a whirl
going at
hammering away at
having a crack at
having a go at
having a shot at
sinking your teeth into
taking a shot at
taking in hand
getting weaving on
going for it
having a stab at
pegging away at
plugging away at
stepping up to the plate
turning one's hand to
going for
starting the ball rolling
trying on for size
taking the bit between your teeth
setting your hand to
giving something a go
Verb
▲
Present participle for to fix or repair something
mending
fixing
repairing
patching
restoring
renewing
reconditioning
overhauling
rebuilding
redeveloping
refitting
refurbishing
servicing
vamping
fettling
reconstructing
retouching
revamping
botching
clouting
conditioning
doctoring
rejuvenating
renovating
revising
tinkering
cobbling
gluing
US
glueing
UK
readying
transforming
patching up
putting back together
fiddling with
piecing together
vamping up
making well
making whole
perking up
Verb
▲
Present participle for to implore someone to do something
importuning
imploring
begging
beseeching
entreating
soliciting
petitioning
asking
supplicating
praying
urging
appealing
impetrating
pleading
conjuring
demanding
enjoining
besieging
obsecrating
pressing
insisting
persuading
appealing to
calling on
pleading with
pleading to
applying to
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Deeply engaged in a given activity
busy
at work on
engaged in
hard at work on
working at
engrossed in
involved in
labouring at
occupied in
preoccupied with
absorbed in
active in
immersed in
occupied with
toiling at
wrapped up in
wrapped up with
employed in
hard at work with
slaving at
buried in
rushed off one's feet with
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