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
- noun A person who works in a low servile job.
- noun Someone who works for (and may be taken advantage of by) someone else.
grind — full definition
- verb To crush or wear something down into smaller pieces through friction, such as grinding coffee beans.
- verb To work hard and persistently at something difficult, often for a long stretch of time.
- noun Tedious, repetitive hard work or effort.