plodding

Definitions

1. 1

   present participle and gerund of plod

2. 2

   Progressing slowly and laboriously.

3. 3

   Slow, laborious progress.

   • I'd count not wearisome / Long toil, nor enterprise, / But strain to reach it; aye, with wrestlings stout / And hopes that even in the dark will grow / (Like plants in dungeons, reaching feelers out), / And ploddings wary and slow.
   • Many a game is won by mere steady plodding.

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