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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 subject (someone) to constant scoldings or harassment
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
tormenting
hounding
chivvying
mithering
baiting
bullying
heckling
deviling
devilling
importuning
bending someone's ear
giving a hard time
keeping on at
keeping after
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
fretting
dogging
hectoring
paining
stressing
besieging
straining
chivying
tantalizing
US
dunning
trying
insisting
reminding
perplexing
driving you up the wall
picking at
intruding upon
messing with
tantalising
UK
getting on one's nerves
picking on
intimidating
pursuing
burning
attacking
bullyragging
noodging
stressing out
jerking around
giving a bad time
rattling one's cage
breathing down someone's neck
pressing
giving the business
going on at
eating at
insisting on
harping on at
discomposing
disquieting
afflicting
rattling
offending
unsettling
dismaying
disconcerting
flustering
outraging
grieving
affronting
hurting
griping
inconveniencing
concerning
unnerving
burdening
discommoding
discomforting
fazing
ailing
disgruntling
itching
flurrying
fussing
saddening
alarming
depressing
disobliging
wounding
torturing
besetting
oppressing
inflaming
aggrieving
shocking
frazzling
distempering
unhinging
agonizing
US
discomfiting
gnawing at
distracting
harrowing
stinging
disgusting
mortifying
roiling
insulting
rankling with
agonising
UK
haunting
weirding out
freaking out
cutting to the quick
derailing
hagriding
niggling
discombobulating
weighing down
hurting somebody's feelings
making anxious
confusing
disrupting
discountenancing
throwing
alaruming
appalling
exercising
undoing
embarrassing
causing offense
traumatizing
US
taunting
disheartening
horrifying
dissing
dissatisfying
interrupting
shaking
frightening
chagrining
making uneasy
lying heavy on
traumatising
UK
stirring up
throwing off balance
trying your patience
devastating
anguishing
dispiriting
daunting
moving
confounding
racking
repelling
demoralizing
US
affecting
scaring
jarring
pothering
weighing heavily on
grating on
making miserable
causing suffering to
putting to trouble
preying on your mind
putting down
demoralising
UK
shaking up
eating away at
putting off
imposing on
discouraging
ridiculing
slighting
dejecting
sickening
chillin
chilling
embittering
souring
casting down
cowing
abrading
hanging over
spooking
injuring
pricking
causing anxiety to
getting your hackles up
getting down
jangling
driving bananas
making unhappy
rubbing you up the wrong way
putting on the spot
working up
wearing on
knocking for six
causing anguish to
making wretched
debilitating
giving offence to
nagging at
driving nuts
ribbing
mocking
chaffing
joshing
ragging
excruciating
getting someone's wick
razzing
roasting
scandalizing
US
bantering
discontenting
unmanning
revolting
disrespecting
taxing
repulsing
leading on
gibing
grinding
bewildering
touching
hazing
crushing
preoccupying
desolating
despairing
crucifying
searing
cursing
stirring
disappointing
dashing
enflaming
madding
iring
panicking
nonplussing
enervating
cutting
exciting
stewing
preying on
nauseating
testing
disaffecting
browbeating
flooring
puzzling
dampening
indisposing
biting
tearing
making it tough
damping
flipping out
jibing at
imposing upon
causing anguish
dumping on
sticking in one's craw
making sad
giving trouble
causing concern to
abashing
setting one's teeth on edge
acerbating
jarring on
martyring
knocking sideways
hanging up
steaming up
scandalising
UK
zinging
putting in a spot
intruding on
making uncomfortable
weighing on
psyching out
causing discomfort to
sending up
knocking the stuffing out of
doing in
deranging
wringing
fooling around
making someone's hackles rise
getting on someone's nerves
getting someone's hackles up
ruffling someone's feathers
getting under someone's skin
getting in someone's hair
trying someone's patience
getting on someone's tits
getting someone's back up
startling
damaging
browning off
occupying
chiding
riling up
interfering
meddling
jeering
piercing
messing
niggling at
pushing someon's buttons
possessing
assailing
bumming
steaming
hacking
mistreating
snubbing
setting someone's teeth on edge
overwhelming
rousing
trying the patience of
sending into a rage
causing disquiet to
tangling
fearing
sweating
barracking
booing
slurring
giving offence
humiliating
treading on someone's toes
kidding around
making restless
unquieting
making fretful
relucting
occupying thoughts
making someone scratch their head
throwing off
chevying
putting on edge
hitting a sour note
getting on
making an enemy of somebody
setting on edge
getting on the wrong side of
caviling
US
cavilling
UK
lying heavily on
kicking up a fuss
kicking up a stink
consternating
prodding
shouting down
putting to some trouble
pressurizing
US
scarring
suffering
putting pressure on
bringing pressure to bear on
leaning on
pressurising
UK
tiffing
huffing
petting
slapping
mourning
pushing the buttons of
thumbing nose at
causing suffering
bleeding
getting across someone
causing sorrow
lambasting
making your gorge rise
imposing
tearing apart
rousting
hissing
obsessing
pressing down on
musing
labouring
UK
laboring
US
taking aback
terrifying
knocking props out
throwing a curve
accosting
unstringing
mixing up
stabbing
deeply upsetting
inflicting trauma
pushing
strapping
doing a number on
arousing anxiety in
pushing buttons
making it tough for
nit-picking
cutting up
squirming
disenchanting
playing dirty
mispleasing
weighing
taking control of
taking over
abominating
filling with loathing
causing someone distress
offending morals of
causing pain
shouting at
shouting catcalls at
butting in
making game of
creating difficulties for
causing inconvenience to
disengaging
detaching
driving insane
disconnecting
sending over the edge
uncoupling
separating
unhitching
unfastening
keying up
turning
incapacitating
crazing
flipping
rocking the boat
laying up
cramping
turning on
getting someone
making a scene
causing to panic
causing anxiety
sticking it to
dishing it out
giving it to
dishing out
causing trouble to
overcharging
undermining
weakening
hurting the feelings of
tearing to pieces
sweating out
making discontented
sapping
enfeebling
bursting in on
coming upon
devitalizing
subduing
flummoxing
disempowering
boring
disadvantaging
impeding
crossing
hindering
fuddling
carping at
softening
arousing sympathy
arousing pity
tugging at the heart
tugging at your heartstrings
putting into a flap
putting someone off their stroke
wearing
stumping
making nervous
throwing into tizzy
causing someone to lose their composure
throwing into a tizz
disorganizing
jumbling
muddling
disparaging
snarling
crippling
unglueing
taking apart
blowing up
deflating
unzipping
disarranging
taking steam out
bringing low
ungluing
blowing out
disordering
discommodating
giving someone bother
causing someone difficulty
making someone go out of his way
wearying
draining
making someone fed up
casting a gloom upon
dragging
beating down
harshing someone's mellow
running down
making gloomy
darkening
giving someone the blues
reducing to tears
making desolate
making despondent
beating
pouring cold water on
throwing cold water on
bringing tears to your eyes
dampening spirits
abasing
bearing down
breaking someone's heart
dashing hopes
dulling
keeping under
kidding
deriding
joking
jiving
rallying
satirizing
US
twitting
guying
funning
quizzing
chiacking
horning in on
butting in on
barging in on
interfering with
shucking
smoking
rotting
sledging
spoofing
slamming
snapping
sounding
having on
poking fun at
making a monkey of
poking borak at
making sport of
flouting at
laughing at
poking mullock at
pulling someone's leg
putting on
pulling one's leg
taking the mickey
slinging off at
taking the piss out of
ragging on
scoffing at
making fun of
messing around
goofing on
swipeing at
jeering at
flirting with
satirising
UK
making jokes about
more ❯
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
growing
cultivating
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
constantly improving
constantly updating
continuously updating
continually updating
expanding
making progress
making headway
upgrading
flourishing
increasing
maturing
augmenting
forging ahead
scaling up
blossoming
coming along
burgeoning
succeeding
evolving
coming of age
updating
moving ahead
booming
intensifying
extending
shaping up
stepping up
being successful
getting on well
bearing fruit
working out
taking steps forward
covering ground
going forward
fostering
getting ahead
amplifying
heightening
magnifying
aggrandizing
improving on
reinforcing
reenforcing
uplifting
compounding
beefing up
smartening up
straightening out
fast-tracking
modernising
UK
modernizing
US
transforming
revolutionizing
US
going great guns
blooming
shining
rising
revolutionising
UK
bourgeoning
getting better
emerging
arriving
getting on
flowering
ripening
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
marching on
opening out
going forth
adapting yourself
working one's way
profiting
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
regulating
interacting with
ruling
directing
underlying
shepherding
disposing
being a factor in
forecasting
persuading
prejudicing
turning
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
working
acting upon
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 ❯
Verb
▲
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
developing
grooming
preparing
practising
UK
practicing
US
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
aggrandizing
stepping up
building up
expanding
fostering
heightening
magnifying
intensifying
prospering
updating
supplementing
compounding
extending
shaping up
scaling up
fast-tracking
working up
making strides
moving forward
making progress
making headway
forging ahead
working out
embellishing
advantaging
favouring
UK
favoring
US
aiding
inspiriting
titivating
benefiting
benefitting
brightening
upping
adding value to
perking up
bumping up
driving forward
giving a facelift to
giving a lift to
giving a boost to
contributing to
doing up
adding to
sprucing up
encouraging the growth of
more ❯
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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
requiring
inducing
prompting
oppressing
pushing around
tormenting
spurring
inciting
persecuting
encouraging
twisting someone's arm
plaguing
instigating
necessitating
stirring
causing
triggering
inspiring
motivating
binding
egging on
rousing
picking on
riding roughshod over
propelling
putting the heat on
putting up to
dominating
commanding
moving
hassling
stimulating
demanding
nudging
whipping
spurring on
inveigling
leading
subjugating
chivvying
cajoling
pushing about
blackmailing
actuating
pricking
imposing
dictating
siccing
tightening the screws on
firing up
having someone do something
exhorting
getting
awing
aweing
tempting
rallying
incentivizing
insisting
occasioning
animating
arousing
crushing
riding
bossing about
bossing around
ordering
swaying
restraining
asking
exacting
enslaving
exciting
challenging
inclining
convincing
victimizing
US
invigorating
sparking
rowelling
roweling
sounding
emboldening
galvanizing
US
breathing down someone's neck
trampling
envigorating
galvanising
UK
vexing
dragooning into
coming at
lording it over
making necessary
browbeating into
victimising
UK
turning the screws on
putting screws to
putting the chill on
keeping down
imposing on
putting the frighteners on
cracking down
treating harshly
holding down
grinding down
ruling with a rod of iron
keying up
insisting on
trampling underfoot
ruling with an iron hand
compressing
leaving someone no option
scaring
terrifying
committing
bothering
squashing
condensing
constricting
leaning
unnerving
egging
shanghaiing
spooking
astricting
indebting
politicking
selling
wheedling
assailing
importuning
heckling
rooting
arguing
mistreating
antagonizing
US
taunting
chivying
putting heat on
antagonising
UK
mobilizing
US
inhibiting
enticing
talking
besieging
putting through the wringer
working over
stinging
inflaming
effecting
having
holding a gun to one's head
troubling
needling
predisposing
conditioning
mobilising
UK
directing
enthusing
determining
prevailing upon
tightening the screw on
turning the screw on
fomenting
making indebted
making it hot for someone
making things hot for someone
bringing pressure upon
pressurizing into
coercing into
lashing
titillating
rousting
bringing force to bear on
bullying into
bludgeoning into
putting the screws to
overcoming
extorting
commandeering
orienting
railroading into
terrorizing into
intimidating into
charging
working up
foisting
wresting
exerting
invoking
expecting
steamrollering into
using force on
conscripting
urging by force
burdening
contracting
obtruding
enjoining
choking
using duress on
applying
throwing your weight around
exerting influence on
making compulsory
bearing down on
forcing upon
bulldozing into
going to town on
exerting force on
leaving someone no option but to
warranting
pinning down
bearing down
putting the bite on
involving
putting squeeze on
bearing hard on
disposing
coaxing
impassioning
eliciting
entailing
calling for
evoking
bringing
activating
steeling
inspiriting
maltreating
empowering
advising
converting
exhilarating
heartening
vitalizing
impacting
uplifting
bringing pressure to bear upon
subjecting
taking
wanting
bearing
meaning
needing
claiming
torturing
incentifying
helping
striking
refreshing
subduing
abusing
behooving
craving
postulating
hegemonizing
overawing
wronging
affrighting
behoving
exploiting
overthrowing
pumping up
stirring up
suggesting to
scourging
ruling
distressing
aggrieving
boosting up
pepping up
whipping up
talking into
winning over
hinting to
cheering on
mastering
spiriting up
leaving no choice but to
handicapping
straining
annoying
encumbering
saddling
outraging
chastening
taxing
controlling
scaring off
ill-treating
scaring the bejesus out of
acting upon
holding sway over
riding herd on
tyrannizing over
beating down
trampling on
weighing heavy upon
walking all over
ruling over
putting upon
ordering around
ordering about
dictating to
domineering over
having someone under your thumb
treating brutally
ruling despotically
keeping under thumb
bringing someone to their knees
more ❯
Verb
▲
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
ingratiating yourself
toadying
groveling
US
grovelling
UK
smooth-talking
puffing up
buttering up to
gushing
stroking one's ego
exalting
soothing
fawning upon
roosing
licking someone's boots
soaping
making a fuss of
slavering
sweet talking
overdoing it
softening up
beguiling
catering to
using flattery
talking blarney
getting in good with
getting on the good side of
prizing
treasuring
nurturing
loving
cherishing
idolizing
US
doting
idolising
UK
holding dear
lavishing affection on
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
warming up
doing again
running down
trying out
recapping
recapitulating
attempting
iterating
trying
having a trial performance
running lines
having a practice session
learning one's part
reading through
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 subject (someone) to constant scoldings or harassment
dogging
nagging
hassling
needling
badgering
harassing
heckling
pestering
harrying
henpecking
prodding
pecking at
gnawing at
grumbling at
harping on at
moaning at
picking at
picking on
finding fault with
giving a hard time
keeping complaining to
hounding
persecuting
riding
bullying
chivvying
teasing
hectoring
provoking
baiting
importuning
goading
criticizing
US
nudging
scolding
berating
upbraiding
egging
urging
criticising
UK
keeping on at
keeping after
going on at
finding fault
breathing down someone's neck
carping at
bending someone's ear
moaning on at
busting someone's balls
taking it out on
busting chops
bothering
tormenting
annoying
troubling
bugging
bedevilling
UK
bedeviling
US
deviling
devilling
pursuing
chivying
browbeating
ragging
curdling
scratching around
ragging on
yapping at
searching high heaven
more ❯
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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