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| Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922. |
| Class V. Words Releasing to the Voluntary Powers |
| Division (I) Individual Volition |
| Section III. Voluntary Action |
| 1. Simple Voluntary Action |
| 686. Exertion. |
| NOUN: | EXERTION, effort, strain, tug, pull, stress, throw, stretch, struggle, spell, spurt or spirt; stroke -, stitch- of work. “a long pull, a strong pull, and a pull all together”; dead lift; heft [dial.]; wear and tear; ado; toil and trouble; uphill -, hard -, warm- work; harvest time. EXERCISE, exercitation, practice, play, gymnastics, field sports; breather [colloq.], racing, running, jumping, riding &c. LABOR, work, toil, travail [rare], manual labor, sweat of one’s brow, swink [obs.], operoseness, drudgery, slavery, fag [colloq., Eng.], faggery, fagging, hammering; limœ labor [L.]; operosity [obs.], operoseness. trouble, pains, duty; resolution [See Resolution]; energy (physical) [See Energy]. WORKER, plodder, laborer, drudge, fagger, fag [Eng. schools], slave; man of action [See Activity]; agent [See Agent]; Samson, Hercules. |
| VERB: | EXERT ONESELF; exert -, tax- one’s energies; use exertion. LABOR, work, toil, moil, sweat, fag, swink [archaic], toil and moil, drudge, slave, drag a lengthened chain, wade through, strive, strain; make -, stretch- a long arm; pull, tug, ply; ply -, tug at- the oar; do the work; take the laboring oar. bestir oneself (be active) [See Activity]; take trouble, trouble oneself. WORK HARD; rough it; put forth -one’s strength, - a strong arm; fall to work, bend the bow; buckle to, set one’s shoulder to the wheel (resolution) [See Resolution]; work like a -horse, - cart horse, - dog, - galley slave, - coal heaver, - Briton; labor -, work- day and night; redouble one’s efforts; do double duty; work double -hours, - tides; sit up, burn the candle at both ends, burn the midnight oil; stick to (persevere) [See Resolution]; work -, fight- one’s way; lay about one, hammer at. DO ONE’S BEST, do one’s level best, do one’s utmost; take pains; do the best one can, do all one can, do all in one’s power, do as much as in one lies, do what lies in one’s power; use one’s -best, - utmost- endeavor; try one’s- -best, - utmost; play one’s best card; put one’s -best, - right- leg foremost; put one’s best foot foremost; have one’s whole soul in his work, put all one’s strength into, strain every nerve; spare no -efforts, -pains; go all lengths; go through fire and water (resolution) [See Resolution]; move heaven and earth, leave no stone unturned. |
| ADJECTIVE: | laboring &c. v. LABORIOUS, hefty [colloq., U. S.], operose, elaborate; strained; toilsome, troublesome, wearisome, burdensome; uphill; herculean, gymnastic, palæstric or palestric, athletic. HARDWORKING, painstaking, strenuous, energetic, never idle. hard at work, on the stretch, on the move, on the jump, on the dead jump, on the run. |
| ADVERB: | LABORIOUSLY &c. adj.; lustily; pugnis et calcibus [L.]; with might and main, with all one’s might, with a strong hand, with sledge hammer, with much ado; to the best of one’s abilities, totis viribus [L.], vi et armis [L.], manibus pedibusque [L.], tooth and nail, unguibus et rostro [L.], hammer and tongs, heart and soul; through thick and thin (perseverance) [See Resolution]. by the sweat of one’s brow, suo Marte [L.]. |
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