Synonyms for elbow grease
Definitions
- n. 1
Effort or hard work, especially physical work involving repeated motion of the forearm, such as scrubbing.
Related words
- Other spellings
- elbow-grease
Example sentences
- effort A little more effort, and you will get on in life.
- sweat Their grace comes from hard work, sweat, and pain.
- exertion After much exertion, he was exhausted.
- travail They finally succeeded after many months of travail.
- welly Come on, give it some welly!
By length
- 5 letters
- sweat1, welly
- 6 letters
- effort2
- 7 letters
- travail2
- 8 letters
- exertion3
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (effort2 = 2 syllables).