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Antonyms for fagging
Grammar : Verb |
Spell : fag |
Phonetic Transcription : fæg |
- activate
- add
- aid
- animate
- assist
- assuage
- be happy
- be lazy
- build
- calm
- cheer
- comfort
- cure
- delight
- despise
- destroy
- develop
- discourage
- dislike
- dissuade
- enable
- encourage
- energize
- enliven
- envigorate
- excite
- fill
- fire up
- flourish
- give
- grow
- hate
- help
- idle
- ignore
- improve
- increase
- invigorate
- laze
- make happy
- mend
- neglect
- please
- pour
- put in
- refresh
- refuse
- reject
- replenish
- rest
- rise
- soothe
- strengthen
Definition of fagging
Origin :- "to droop, decline, tire," 1520s, apparently an alteration of flag (v.) in its sense of "droop." Transitive sense of "to make (someone or something) fatigued" is first attested 1826. Related: Fagged; fagging.
- As in languish : verb droop; become dull, listless
- As in tire : verb exhaust, weary
- As in weary : verb make tired
- As in jade : verb fatigue
- As in moil : verb labor
- As in poop : verb exhaust
- As in tire out : verb exhaust
- As in exhaust : verb tire or wear out
- As in fatigue : verb tire, wear out
- Fagging, which began after the first fortnight, he found a not unpleasant duty.
- Extract from : « The Hill » by Horace Annesley Vachell
- Volumes of nonsense have been written about the Fagging System.
- Extract from : « Seeing and Hearing » by George W. E. Russell
- Fagging was a fully established system at Eton and Winchester in the 16th century, and is probably a good deal older.
- Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 » by Various
- Fagging was the law; so the upper forms enslaved the lower ones.
- Extract from : « Little Journeys To The Homes Of Great Teachers » by Elbert Hubbard
Synonyms for fagging
- annoy
- back
- bankrupt
- be disregarded
- be neglected
- bear down
- bedraggle
- bore
- brood
- burden
- burn out
- bush
- cause ennui
- cloy
- collapse
- conk out
- crawl
- cripple
- cultivate
- debilitate
- decline
- deject
- deplete
- depress
- desire
- despond
- deteriorate
- die on vine
- disable
- disgust
- dishearten
- dispirit
- displease
- distress
- do in
- drain
- draw
- drive
- droop
- drop
- drowse
- drudge
- dwindle
- ebb
- endeavor
- enervate
- enfeeble
- ennui
- exasperate
- exert oneself
- exhaust
- fade
- fag
- fag out
- fail
- faint
- fall off
- fatigue
- fizzle
- fizzle out
- flag
- fold
- frazzle
- give out
- glut
- go soft
- go stale
- go to pieces
- grieve
- grind
- grow tired
- grow weary
- hanker
- harass
- have had enough
- hunger
- impoverish
- irk
- irritate
- jade
- knock out
- languish
- leave one cold
- long
- lose interest
- make discontented
- nauseate
- oppress
- overburden
- overdo
- overexert
- overextend
- overfatigue
- overstrain
- overtax
- overtire
- overwork
- pain
- pall
- peter out
- pine
- plague
- plod
- plug away
- poop
- poop out
- pour it on
- prostrate
- put to sleep
- repine
- rot
- run ragged
- sag
- sap
- sicken
- sigh
- sink
- slave
- snivel
- sorrow
- strain
- strive
- struggle
- succumb
- suck dry
- suffer
- sweat
- take
- take it out of
- tax
- tend
- tire
- tire out
- toil
- travail
- try the patience of
- tucker
- tucker out
- tug
- use up
- vex
- waste
- waste away
- weaken
- wear
- wear down
- wear out
- weary
- weigh
- wilt
- wither
- work
- work oneself to the bone
- worry
- yawn
- yearn
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