slog

Object

• sweep: But when Warne strays onto leg stump, Flintoff can resist no longer and slog sweeps him over mid wicket for six!
• round: That means slogging round the uni circuit, the pub circuit and so on.

Converse of object

• become: Add in your own HIV health needs, and life suddenly becomes a relentless slog through the health and social care system.

Adjective modifier

• hard: Most of the work here is just a hard slog.
• real: I was saved when I was a medical student - I wasn't very bright, so medicine was a real slog!
• long: It is a long hard relentless slog in which we are all involved.

Modifying Another Word

• uphill: The Murray snowfield proved to be a long imperceptibly uphill slog in slightly soft snow, but no crevasse problems.
• hard: The battle settled down into a long, hard slog gaining small amounts of ground in periodic smaller scale attacks.
• long: The long slog up a scree slope to our final camp.
• away: Slogging away, with the heavy panniers, we were soon in dense cloud, with a long way to go.
• back: We had a half hour slog back up the hill to the car.
• just: So if T disappears from where you just slogged your way to get it, well, c'est la vie.

Followed by an intransitive particle

• up: A fair slog up to Sutton Bridge now ensued.
• away: Cherie seems some time ago to have decided that slogging away in the courts would not solve her problems.
• out: An uneventful return journey, shame about the slog out of the gorge!

Followed by a transitive particle

• around: The heather is wonderful but as we are warned, vulnerable to trampling, so stick to slogging around the paths please.
• up: The long slog up a scree slope to our final camp.
• down: Without saying much we slogged down the tide which was still slightly going out but really hardly noticeable.

Particle object:

• hill: The weather was on our side with warm sunshine - just what you need for a steady slog up hill for 2.5 Hours!

Infinitive complement

• get: Agree pretty much about the rest... The Lost Album is, to me, a slog to get through.