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raataa — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • drudge noun A person who works in a low servile job.
  • grind verb To crush or wear something down into smaller pieces through friction, such as grinding coffee beans.
  • labour noun Hard physical or mental effort put into a task; work.
  • slave noun A person legally owned by another and forced to work without freedom or pay.
  • strive verb To make a great and sustained effort to achieve something.
  • sweat noun The salty liquid released through the skin, usually from heat, exercise, or stress.
  • toil noun Hard, exhausting work.

Senses

raataa is used for these senses in English:

  • bust one's ass (slang, vulgar, North America) To work very hard, to put in a great amount of effort.
  • coalface (figurative, UK) A place where difficult or strenuous work is done.
  • drudge (intransitive) To labour in (or as in) a low servile job.
  • labour (intransitive) To toil, to work.
  • slave (intransitive) To work hard.
  • strive To try to achieve a result; to make strenuous effort; to try earnestly and persistently.
  • sweat (intransitive, informal) To work hard.
  • work someone's ass off (This entry is a translation hub.) (idiomatic, vulgar, slang) To work, or cause to work, excessively or to the point of exhaustion; see work + someone's ass off.

drudge — full definition

  1. noun A person who works in a low servile job.
  2. noun Someone who works for (and may be taken advantage of by) someone else.

grind — full definition

  1. verb To crush or wear something down into smaller pieces through friction, such as grinding coffee beans.
  2. verb To work hard and persistently at something difficult, often for a long stretch of time.
  3. noun Tedious, repetitive hard work or effort.

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