Synonyms of the word

effort

• n. The work involved in performing an activity; exertion.
• n. An endeavour.
• n. A force acting on a body in the direction of its motion.
• v. (uncommon, intransitive) To make an effort.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To stimulate.

accomplishment

• n. The act of accomplishing; completion; fulfillment.
• n. That which completes, perfects, or equips thoroughly; acquirement; attainment; that which constitutes…
• n. Something accomplished; an achievement.

achievement

• n. The act of achieving or performing; a successful performance; accomplishment.
• n. A great or heroic deed or feat; something accomplished by valor or boldness.
• n. (heraldry) An escutcheon or ensign armorial; now generally applied to the funeral shield commonly called…
• n. (video games) An award for completing a particular task or meeting an objective in a video game.

activity

• n. The state or quality of being active; nimbleness; agility; vigorous action or operation; energy; active…
• n. Something done as an action or a movement.
• n. Something done for pleasure or entertainment, especially one involving movement or an excursion.
• n. Use (of internet, Playstation, bank account etc.).

attempt

• v. To try.
• v. (obsolete) To try to move, by entreaty, by afflictions, or by temptations; to tempt.
• v. (archaic) To try to win, subdue, or overcome.
• v. (archaic) To attack; to make an effort or attack upon; to try to take by force.
• n. The action of trying at something.
• n. An assault or attack, especially an assassination attempt.

campaign

• n. A series of operations undertaken to achieve a set goal.
• n. (obsolete) An open field; a large, open plain without considerable hills; a champaign.
• n. The period during which a blast furnace is continuously in operation.
• v. (intransitive) To take part in a campaign.
• v. (transitive) Consistently ride in races for a racing season.

cause

• n. (countable, often with of, typically of adverse results) The source of, or reason for, an event or action;…
• n. (uncountable, especially with for and a bare noun) Sufficient reason for a state, as of emotion.
• n. (countable) A goal, aim or principle, especially one which transcends purely selfish ends.
• n. (obsolete) Sake; interest; advantage.
• n. (countable, obsolete) Any subject of discussion or debate; a matter; an affair.
• n. (countable, law) A suit or action in court; any legal process by which a party endeavors to obtain his…
• v. To set off an event or action.
• v. To actively produce as a result, by means of force or authority.
• v. To assign or show cause; to give a reason; to make excuse.

crusade

• n. Any of the military expeditions undertaken by the Christians of Europe in the 11th to 13th centuries to…
• n. Any war instigated and blessed by the Church for alleged religious ends. Especially, papal sanctioned…
• n. (figuratively) A grand concerted effort toward some purportedly worthy cause.
• n. (archaic) A Portuguese coin; a crusado.
• v. To make a grand concerted effort toward some purportedly worthy cause.

deed

• n. An action or act; something that is done.
• n. A brave or noteworthy action; a feat or exploit.
• n. Action or fact, as opposed to rhetoric or deliberation.
• n. (law) A legal contract showing bond in form of a document.
• v. (informal) To transfer real property by deed.

drive

• n. Motivation to do or achieve something; ability coupled with ambition.
• n. Violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; especially, a forced or hurried dispatch of business.
• n. An act of driving animals forward, such as to be captured, hunted etc.
• n. (military) A sustained advance in the face of the enemy to take a strategic objective.
• n. A motor that does not take fuel, but instead depends on a mechanism that stores potential energy for subsequent…
• n. A trip made in a motor vehicle.
• n. A driveway.
• n. A type of public roadway.
• n. (dated) A place suitable or agreeable for driving; a road prepared for driving.
• n. (psychology) Desire or interest.
• n. (computing) An apparatus for reading and writing data to or from a mass storage device such as a disk,…
• n. (computing) A mass storage device in which the mechanism for reading and writing data is integrated with…
• n. (golf) A stroke made with a driver.
• n. (baseball, tennis) A ball struck in a flat trajectory.
• n. (cricket) A type of shot played by swinging the bat in a vertical arc, through the line of the ball, and…
• n. (soccer) A straight level shot or pass.
• n. (American football) An offensive possession, generally one consisting of several plays and/ or first downs,…
• n. A charity event such as a fundraiser, bake sale, or toy drive.
• n. (typography) An impression or matrix formed by a punch drift.
• n. A collection of objects that are driven; a mass of logs to be floated down a river.
• v. (transitive) To impel or urge onward by force; to push forward; to compel to move on.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To direct a vehicle powered by a horse, ox or similar animal.
• v. (transitive) To cause animals to flee out of.
• v. (transitive) To move (something) by hitting it with great force.
• v. (transitive) To cause (a mechanism) to operate.
• v. (transitive, ergative) To operate (a wheeled motorized vehicle).
• v. (transitive) To motivate; to provide an incentive for.
• v. (transitive) To compel (to do something).
• v. (transitive) To cause to become.
• v. (intransitive, cricket, tennis, baseball) To hit the ball with a drive.
• v. (intransitive) To travel by operating a wheeled motorized vehicle.
• v. (transitive) To convey (a person, etc) in a wheeled motorized vehicle.
• v. (intransitive) To move forcefully.
• v. (intransitive) To be moved or propelled forcefully (especially of a ship).
• v. (transitive) To urge, press, or bring to a point or state.
• v. (transitive) To carry or to keep in motion; to conduct; to prosecute.
• v. (transitive) To clear, by forcing away what is contained.
• v. (mining) To dig horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel.
• v. (American football) To put together a drive (n.): to string together offensive plays and advance the ball…
• v. (obsolete) To distrain for rent.
• v. To be the dominant party where two people are engaged in a sex act.

endeavor

• n. A sincere attempt; a determined or assiduous effort towards a specific goal.
• n. Enterprise; assiduous or persistent activity.
• v. (obsolete) To exert oneself.
• v. (intransitive) To attempt through application of effort (to do something); to try strenuously.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To attempt (something).
• v. To work with purpose.

endeavour

• n. British standard spelling of endeavor.
• v. British standard spelling of endeavor.

exertion

• n. An expenditure of physical or mental effort.

exploit

• n. A heroic or extraordinary deed.
• n. An achievement.
• n. (computing) A program or technique that exploits a vulnerability in other software.
• v. (transitive) To use for one’s own advantage.
• v. (transitive) To forcibly deprive someone of something to which she or he has a natural right.

feat

• n. A relatively rare or difficult accomplishment.
• adj. (archaic) Dexterous in movements or service; skilful; neat; pretty.
• v. (obsolete) To form; to fashion.

labor

• n. American standard spelling of labour.
• v. American standard spelling of labour.

labour

• n. Effort expended on a particular task; toil, work.
• n. That which requires hard work for its accomplishment; that which demands effort.
• n. (uncountable) Workers in general; the working class, the workforce; sometimes specifically the labour…
• n. (uncountable) A political party or force aiming or claiming to represent the interests of labour.
• n. The act of a mother giving birth.
• n. The time period during which a mother gives birth.
• n. (nautical) The pitching or tossing of a vessel which results in the straining of timbers and rigging.
• n. An old measure of land area in Mexico and Texas, approximately 177 acres.
• v. (intransitive) To toil, to work.
• v. (transitive) To belabour, to emphasise or expand upon (a point in a debate, etc).
• v. To be oppressed with difficulties or disease; to do one's work under conditions which make it especially…
• v. To suffer the pangs of childbirth.
• v. (nautical) To pitch or roll heavily, as a ship in a turbulent sea.

movement

• n. Physical motion between points in space.
• n. (engineering) A system or mechanism for transmitting motion of a definite character, or for transforming…
• n. The impression of motion in an artwork, painting, novel etc.
• n. A trend in various fields or social categories, a group of people with a common ideology who try together…
• n. (music) A large division of a larger composition.
• n. (aviation) An instance of an aircraft taking off or landing.
• n. (baseball) The deviation of a pitch from ballistic flight.
• n. An act of emptying the bowels.
• n. (obsolete) Motion of the mind or feelings; emotion.

sweat

• n. Fluid that exits the body through pores in the skin usually due to physical stress and/or high temperature…
• n. (Britain, slang, military slang, especially WWI) A soldier (especially one who is old or experienced).
• n. (historical) The sweating sickness.
• n. Moisture issuing from any substance.
• n. A short run by a racehorse as a form of exercise.
• v. (intransitive) To emit sweat.
• v. (transitive) To cause to excrete moisture from the skin; to cause to perspire.
• v. (intransitive, informal) To work hard.
• v. (transitive, informal) To extract money, labour, etc. from, by exaction or oppression.
• v. (intransitive, informal) To worry.
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To worry about (something).
• v. (transitive) To emit, in the manner of sweat.
• v. (intransitive) To emit moisture.
• v. (intransitive, plumbing) To solder (a pipe joint) together.
• v. (transitive, slang) To stress out.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To cook slowly in shallow oil without browning.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To remove a portion of (a coin), as by shaking it with others in a bag, so that…

toil

• n. labour, work, especially of a grueling nature.
• n. trouble, strife.
• n. A net or snare; any thread, web, or string spread for taking prey; usually in the plural.
• v. (intransitive) To labour; work.
• v. (intransitive) To struggle.
• v. (transitive) To work (something); often with out.
• v. (transitive) To weary through excessive labour.

travail

• n. (archaic) Arduous or painful exertion; excessive labor, suffering, hardship.
• n. Specifically, the labor of childbirth.
• n. (obsolete, countable) An act of working; labor (US), labour (British).
• n. (obsolete) The eclipse of a celestial object.
• n. Obsolete form of travel.
• n. Alternative form of travois (“a kind of sled”).
• v. To toil.
• v. To go through the labor of childbirth.

try

• v. To attempt; to endeavour. Followed by infinitive.
• v. (obsolete) To divide; to separate.
• v. To test, to work out.
• v. To experiment, to strive.
• v. (nautical) To lie to in heavy weather under just sufficient sail to head into the wind.
• v. To strain; to subject to excessive tests.
• v. (slang, chiefly African American Vernacular, used with another verb) To want.
• n. An attempt.
• n. An act of tasting or sampling.
• n. (rugby) A score in rugby, analogous to a touchdown in American football.
• n. (Britain, dialect, obsolete) A screen, or sieve, for grain.
• n. (American football) a field goal or extra point.
• adj. (obsolete) Fine, excellent.

venture

• n. A risky or daring undertaking or journey.
• n. An event that is not, or cannot be, foreseen; an accident; chance; contingency.
• n. The thing risked; a stake; especially, something sent to sea in trade.
• v. (transitive) To undertake a risky or daring journey.
• v. (transitive) To risk or offer.
• v. (intransitive) to dare to engage in; to attempt without any certainty of success. Used with at or on.
• v. (transitive) To put or send on a venture or chance.
• v. (transitive) To confide in; to rely on; to trust.
• v. (transitive) To say something.