Synonyms for Apply oneself:

• n.

  •Other relevant words: (noun)
  • keep one's nose to the grindstone,
  • dedicate oneself,
  • concentrate on,
  • be diligent,
  • persist in,
  • work hard at,
  • work at,
  • persevere in,
  • be industrious,
  • get down to work,
  • buckle down,
  • address oneself,
  • devote oneself,
  • be hardworking,
  • give oneself wholly to,
  • be occupied with,
  • direct oneself to,
  • keep one's mind on.

• v.

  •be employed; exert oneself (verb)
  • work.
  •buckle down (verb)
  • knuckle down,
  • throw,
  • launch into,
  • get serious,
  • put one's hand to the plow,
  • keep close to,
  • pitch in,
  • dedicate oneself to,
  • plunge into,
  • exert oneself,
  • bend,
  • give oneself over to,
  • take the bull by the horns,
  • devote oneself to,
  • give,
  • put one's nose to the grindstone,
  • occupy oneself with,
  • set to,
  • swing into action,
  • address,
  • turn.
  •contemplate, learn (verb)
  • study.
  •exert (verb)
  • put out,
  • struggle,
  • pour it on,
  • ply,
  • put forth,
  • strain,
  • wield,
  • sweat it,
  • toil,
  • labor,
  • try hard,
  • employ,
  • push,
  • bring into play,
  • apply,
  • strive,
  • give best shot,
  • give all one's got,
  • utilize,
  • use,
  • peg away,
  • plug,
  • endeavor,
  • dig,
  • expend,
  • exercise,
  • make effort,
  • bring to bear.
  •hit the books (verb)
  • con,
  • crack a book.
  •hurry; work hurriedly (verb)
  • hustle.
  •hustle (verb)
  • be conscientious,
  • thrust.
  •make an effort (verb)
  • tackle.
  •make use of (verb)
  • exert.
  •Other relevant words: (verb)
  • listen to,
  • attend to.
  •pursue (verb)
  • see through,
  • continue,
  • perform,
  • practice,
  • maintain,
  • prosecute,
  • adhere,
  • engage in,
  • proceed,
  • hold to,
  • wage,
  • conduct,
  • keep on,
  • cultivate.
  •study (verb)
  • think out,
  • learn the ropes,
  • pore over.
  •tackle (verb)
  • essay,
  • bang away at,
  • launch,
  • give a try,
  • turn to,
  • undertake,
  • take on,
  • deal with,
  • try on for size,
  • pitch into,
  • begin,
  • go for it,
  • turn one's hand to,
  • attack,
  • work on,
  • start the ball rolling,
  • make a run at,
  • take up,
  • take in hand,
  • come to grips with,
  • embark upon,
  • take a shot at,
  • square off,
  • set about,
  • give a whirl,
  • accept.
  •work (verb)
  • specialize,
  • do business,
  • moonlight,
  • drudge,
  • scratch,
  • do a job,
  • nine-to-five it,
  • punch a clock,
  • report,
  • have a job,
  • freelance,
  • earn a living,
  • moil,
  • be gainfully employed,
  • manufacture,
  • sweat,
  • manage,
  • hold a job,
  • slave,
  • slog.

• Other synonyms:

  •buckle down
  • occupied with,
  • devote to,
  • concentrated on,
  • give over to,
  • take bull by the horns,
  • concentrates on,
  • dedicate to,
  • launched into,
  • dedicated to,
  • devoted to,
  • concentrating on,
  • attended to.
  •exert
  • Endeavoring,
  • tried hard,
  • pour on,
  • Wielding,
  • Exerted.
  •Other relevant words:
  • gag,
  • touch on,
  • reduce,
  • free,
  • safety device,
  • hush up,
  • dog-tired,
  • break away,
  • cigaret,
  • manipulate,
  • take off,
  • peg down,
  • boom,
  • composition,
  • nog,
  • make do,
  • plodding,
  • bailiwick,
  • short-change,
  • light,
  • remuneration,
  • superintend,
  • sketch,
  • near,
  • use up,
  • flurry,
  • watch over,
  • fertilize,
  • devise,
  • fuss,
  • get up,
  • indorse,
  • fall in,
  • cling,
  • consider,
  • elicit,
  • heavy,
  • aspect,
  • ready,
  • deportment,
  • hunt,
  • solve,
  • set on,
  • pertain,
  • get in,
  • leave,
  • infract,
  • influence,
  • put under,
  • win over,
  • habit,
  • send,
  • faggot,
  • forcefulness,
  • compass,
  • disoblige,
  • towboat,
  • department of labor,
  • yard bird,
  • fording,
  • come through,
  • clean-cut,
  • confidence trick,
  • breach,
  • return,
  • rework,
  • bear,
  • rick,
  • reference,
  • centralise,
  • inspection,
  • respectfulness,
  • drum,
  • slant,
  • guide,
  • eats,
  • brushup,
  • hightail it,
  • bulldoze,
  • contribute,
  • upgrade,
  • talk over,
  • boost,
  • grate,
  • travail,
  • front,
  • brass,
  • mesh,
  • practise,
  • flex,
  • wear out,
  • critique,
  • farm,
  • rill,
  • lock,
  • fretsaw,
  • speeding,
  • hinder,
  • zip,
  • punt,
  • sail through,
  • speculate,
  • pee,
  • entertain,
  • center,
  • follow up on,
  • swindle,
  • disburden,
  • hoopla,
  • authorise,
  • oarlock,
  • create,
  • place,
  • include,
  • stoop,
  • ask,
  • mathematical function,
  • invoke,
  • call,
  • delve,
  • suck in,
  • wet-nurse,
  • border on,
  • nursemaid,
  • postulate,
  • confound,
  • ease up,
  • workout,
  • act as,
  • subject area,
  • vanish,
  • wonder,
  • hurriedness,
  • roil,
  • spark plug,
  • mind,
  • clearly,
  • lather,
  • case,
  • support,
  • cook,
  • fling,
  • ca-ca,
  • claim,
  • pegleg,
  • plight,
  • enactment,
  • body of work,
  • go after,
  • controller,
  • line,
  • melt down,
  • call down,
  • nisus,
  • probe,
  • navvy,
  • retool,
  • dorsum,
  • invent,
  • deed,
  • call on,
  • read,
  • nerd,
  • pilot,
  • narrow,
  • holy man,
  • buck,
  • adopt,
  • recollect,
  • reputation,
  • shinny,
  • mull,
  • construct,
  • brush up,
  • nance,
  • donkeywork,
  • supervise,
  • chicane,
  • adjure,
  • project,
  • foot race,
  • domesticate,
  • monetary fund,
  • beat back,
  • focus,
  • collar,
  • organize,
  • cleave,
  • enlighten,
  • yardbird,
  • mastery,
  • role,
  • exercising,
  • glide path,
  • save,
  • blunder,
  • range,
  • trade union movement,
  • stretch forth,
  • kale,
  • paper,
  • centralize,
  • bring home the bacon,
  • lift out,
  • advance,
  • resume,
  • earnings,
  • hold open,
  • salary increase,
  • give one's best,
  • contend,
  • allow in,
  • start out,
  • clear-cut,
  • get hold of,
  • stroke,
  • organise,
  • chock up,
  • elucidate,
  • differentiate,
  • naturalise,
  • consumption,
  • ram,
  • elbow joint,
  • light up,
  • military press,
  • subscribe,
  • curve,
  • cop,
  • specify,
  • intent,
  • bind,
  • oeuvre,
  • lucubrate,
  • go on,
  • have,
  • engulf,
  • enlarge,
  • approach path,
  • fix,
  • grave,
  • black-footed ferret,
  • stopple,
  • get down,
  • dough,
  • pelf,
  • shin,
  • lead off,
  • proceeds,
  • rush along,
  • clip,
  • civilise,
  • afford,
  • beseech,
  • pains,
  • pansy,
  • dinero,
  • deport,
  • kick,
  • dent,
  • mime,
  • savvy,
  • closet,
  • shuffle,
  • scratch line,
  • lay down,
  • ensure,
  • footrace,
  • news report,
  • sparking plug,
  • fatigued,
  • dig up,
  • dunk,
  • take aim,
  • strength,
  • honour,
  • force back,
  • shape,
  • soak up,
  • preserve,
  • devolve on,
  • press out,
  • defraud,
  • impart,
  • regard,
  • instruct,
  • bone up,
  • finagle,
  • workplace,
  • reckon,
  • revolve around,
  • douse,
  • honk,
  • business,
  • nudge,
  • rachis,
  • mug up,
  • sack up,
  • stab,
  • barb,
  • washed-out,
  • wangle,
  • heave,
  • ruminate,
  • chance,
  • purpose,
  • guess,
  • dump,
  • gibe,
  • first-come-first-serve,
  • business organization,
  • say,
  • command,
  • throw up,
  • skin,
  • straining,
  • taste,
  • limited review,
  • value,
  • chicken feed,
  • give way,
  • conflict,
  • fall over,
  • debate,
  • incommode,
  • enlist,
  • fastness,
  • moonshine,
  • discourse,
  • promote,
  • theme,
  • keep open,
  • lunge,
  • cause,
  • need,
  • wee-wee,
  • use elbow grease,
  • enjoyment,
  • outwear,
  • betroth,
  • commit,
  • kindle,
  • narrow down,
  • queen,
  • physical exertion,
  • fishing rig,
  • inmate,
  • work out,
  • good turn,
  • stay,
  • swot,
  • mulct,
  • unmortgaged,
  • grimace,
  • psyche,
  • backward,
  • arrive at,
  • volunteer,
  • host,
  • get-up-and-go,
  • bunko,
  • resurrect,
  • extend,
  • run across,
  • jam,
  • particularise,
  • pouf,
  • mimicker,
  • lay into,
  • retire,
  • filtrate,
  • warm,
  • list,
  • archeological site,
  • escape,
  • give it a try,
  • depend on,
  • subscribe to,
  • go through,
  • hurl,
  • open,
  • lick,
  • exertion,
  • scarper,
  • lighten,
  • offering,
  • fabricate,
  • wrestling,
  • sift,
  • turn over,
  • flesh out,
  • sudate,
  • keep back,
  • worn-out,
  • describe,
  • make water,
  • nag,
  • showdown,
  • erect,
  • backbone,
  • dol,
  • take a crap,
  • motorbus,
  • cat,
  • recapitulation,
  • freshen up,
  • bring,
  • coming upon,
  • snipe,
  • puddle,
  • wage increase,
  • typeface,
  • surge,
  • pep pill,
  • hale,
  • meet,
  • thinker,
  • wring,
  • assure,
  • get wind,
  • pull off,
  • come off,
  • economic consumption,
  • speech,
  • score,
  • pluck,
  • name,
  • cancel,
  • thin,
  • jampack,
  • deference,
  • private instructor,
  • determine,
  • skirmish,
  • tutor,
  • brood over,
  • usage,
  • precipitation,
  • printing press,
  • cacography,
  • see,
  • lambaste,
  • punch,
  • tent flap,
  • rub down,
  • heat,
  • playact,
  • keep up,
  • fire,
  • prepare,
  • revue,
  • childbed,
  • fire hydrant,
  • energy,
  • doings,
  • come across,
  • overworking,
  • change,
  • labor department,
  • bond,
  • scratching,
  • shake off,
  • forge,
  • reverse,
  • hacker,
  • crusade,
  • inquire,
  • perspiration,
  • attain,
  • throw off,
  • human face,
  • puree,
  • inscribe,
  • routine,
  • variant,
  • spike,
  • bending,
  • flack,
  • overture,
  • pass,
  • bout,
  • written report,
  • lift,
  • analyze,
  • spinal column,
  • motor,
  • round,
  • act on,
  • yield,
  • immerse,
  • intellect,
  • piece of work,
  • tide over,
  • consume,
  • rushed,
  • confinement,
  • played out,
  • hack,
  • subprogram,
  • filter,
  • male plug,
  • stock,
  • crack,
  • hinge upon,
  • wooden leg,
  • figure out,
  • form,
  • pressing,
  • living,
  • consecrate,
  • scar,
  • approaching,
  • test,
  • skate over,
  • depart,
  • human activity,
  • nobble,
  • critical review,
  • revolve about,
  • diddle,
  • industry,
  • impel,
  • striving,
  • lying-in,
  • fear,
  • field,
  • reciprocating saw,
  • render,
  • round off,
  • control condition,
  • bleed,
  • rivulet,
  • refreshen,
  • public press,
  • nominate,
  • assail,
  • fag out,
  • hurrying,
  • carry off,
  • compere,
  • field of study,
  • drudging,
  • register,
  • thrill,
  • anaesthetize,
  • onrush,
  • record,
  • exposit,
  • swiftness,
  • brand,
  • boot,
  • release,
  • look sharp,
  • sleep in,
  • manager,
  • succeed,
  • orchestrate,
  • be given,
  • store,
  • lash out,
  • call off,
  • nous,
  • lend oneself,
  • driving force,
  • political campaign,
  • movement,
  • leg,
  • urinate,
  • loosen up,
  • onslaught,
  • tally,
  • sentry go,
  • power,
  • plication,
  • fly sheet,
  • lambast,
  • force,
  • arrive,
  • hard worker,
  • deflect,
  • decipherable,
  • henry ford ii,
  • raceway,
  • inclination,
  • bring out,
  • consent,
  • track down,
  • publish,
  • takings,
  • name and address,
  • private road,
  • target,
  • move into,
  • call forth,
  • convict,
  • aviate,
  • autobus,
  • patronise,
  • whitewash,
  • social occasion,
  • boil down,
  • care,
  • glide slope,
  • revision,
  • hype,
  • assume,
  • freshen,
  • procedure,
  • imbibe,
  • boil,
  • undertaking,
  • set in motion,
  • airstream,
  • assist,
  • scoop,
  • constitute,
  • smash,
  • lace into,
  • ride,
  • moolah,
  • ascendency,
  • kick upstairs,
  • guarantee,
  • shit,
  • get the picture,
  • fray,
  • push button,
  • stress,
  • condense,
  • repel,
  • exhort,
  • drudgery,
  • grapple,
  • running game,
  • whip,
  • approach shot,
  • assault,
  • rivet,
  • expound,
  • idea,
  • cave in,
  • check,
  • head for the hills,
  • engrave,
  • refer,
  • hold dear,
  • curb,
  • back up,
  • combat,
  • scat,
  • engineer,
  • passenger car,
  • talk about,
  • stir up,
  • perusing,
  • turning,
  • wonk,
  • crouch,
  • intend,
  • runnel,
  • spanner,
  • poke,
  • change over,
  • striver,
  • wing,
  • excise,
  • survive,
  • commute,
  • tend,
  • pose,
  • scrape up,
  • handgrip,
  • pull in,
  • pad,
  • stop number,
  • bother,
  • mention,
  • pick up,
  • pelt along,
  • subject field,
  • inconvenience,
  • deal,
  • recall,
  • bring in,
  • officialise,
  • clams,
  • bustle,
  • destination,
  • take in charge,
  • lighten up,
  • dedicate,
  • make for,
  • keep one's shoulder to the wheel,
  • hollow,
  • thrusting,
  • fuddle,
  • act up,
  • massage,
  • upper,
  • military force,
  • harbour,
  • cater,
  • second,
  • set up,
  • sour,
  • lucre,
  • scam,
  • pick out,
  • head,
  • pushing,
  • go about,
  • choose,
  • elevate,
  • move around,
  • be sick,
  • pee-pee,
  • reach,
  • account,
  • issue,
  • follow,
  • formulate,
  • slug,
  • reflect,
  • wear down,
  • bid,
  • tire out,
  • personate,
  • pass on,
  • plod,
  • go for,
  • compress,
  • take heed,
  • urge,
  • remember,
  • driveway,
  • follow-up,
  • plunk,
  • peruse,
  • compact,
  • objective,
  • prevent,
  • defend,
  • discipline,
  • design,
  • go forward,
  • spent,
  • crowd,
  • wear,
  • hotfoot,
  • bury oneself in,
  • hasten,
  • shekels,
  • Perpend,
  • push up,
  • nutrify,
  • obedience,
  • cranch,
  • charge,
  • pulverisation,
  • survey,
  • course,
  • spew,
  • bunk,
  • effort,
  • plan of attack,
  • nanny,
  • exhausted,
  • holy person,
  • tense up,
  • buoy,
  • ward,
  • writhe,
  • show,
  • excavate,
  • tent-fly,
  • meditate,
  • anesthetize,
  • stay fresh,
  • hook on,
  • crossing,
  • declare oneself,
  • shed,
  • goof,
  • rearward,
  • vindicated,
  • plunk for,
  • enterprise,
  • tire,
  • storm,
  • arm,
  • mapping,
  • utilization,
  • free lance,
  • bustle about,
  • unravel,
  • example,
  • looking,
  • nail down,
  • supply,
  • net,
  • confide,
  • slipstream,
  • retrieve,
  • british labour party,
  • prick,
  • sleek over,
  • fell,
  • vomit,
  • black market,
  • listen,
  • enforce,
  • offer up,
  • endure,
  • coach-and-four,
  • get,
  • process,
  • double-decker,
  • insistence,
  • discombobulate,
  • expedite,
  • pattern,
  • hie,
  • flip,
  • wedge,
  • urge on,
  • conserve,
  • take to the woods,
  • tune,
  • come to,
  • go,
  • cheek,
  • sudor,
  • select,
  • backrest,
  • coffin nail,
  • smooth over,
  • excavation,
  • make up,
  • give suck,
  • verbatim,
  • shoulder joint,
  • carry,
  • grip,
  • build,
  • bear on,
  • sorb,
  • bray,
  • brighten,
  • bemuse,
  • conjure,
  • build up,
  • die hard,
  • rescript,
  • operate on,
  • hire,
  • check into,
  • ponder,
  • interest,
  • refashion,
  • beat about,
  • competitiveness,
  • respond,
  • progress to,
  • sponge,
  • draw,
  • cerebrate,
  • draw near,
  • assay,
  • scrawl,
  • rushing,
  • climb,
  • pass with flying colors,
  • rook,
  • settle,
  • cogitation,
  • cite,
  • mental strain,
  • bang,
  • verify,
  • rig,
  • speed up,
  • bearing,
  • engross,
  • violate,
  • take to heart,
  • tenor,
  • well-defined,
  • win,
  • fall,
  • carriage,
  • ascendancy,
  • present,
  • crystallise,
  • bring off,
  • break,
  • steer,
  • pretend,
  • bunko game,
  • brain,
  • running play,
  • souse,
  • belt along,
  • fatigue,
  • rent,
  • fireplug,
  • wreak,
  • expatiate,
  • fasten on,
  • jostling,
  • call for,
  • find out,
  • accost,
  • civilize,
  • fight back,
  • donjon,
  • tote,
  • stick,
  • ascendance,
  • pop the question,
  • ferret out,
  • shed light on,
  • confront,
  • fill,
  • get a line,
  • sugar,
  • learn,
  • ferment,
  • worn out,
  • poove,
  • fertilise,
  • take away,
  • run through,
  • fly,
  • velocity,
  • patronage,
  • readable,
  • exonerated,
  • memorize,
  • reexamination,
  • put up,
  • treasure,
  • lam,
  • stir,
  • look,
  • gain,
  • shoot for,
  • spell,
  • judgment,
  • office,
  • pressure,
  • set forth,
  • springiness,
  • handler,
  • cover,
  • hike,
  • scribble,
  • educate,
  • get word,
  • mill,
  • rainfly,
  • necessitate,
  • ascendence,
  • self-employed,
  • weightlift,
  • chew,
  • melody,
  • purport,
  • physical exercise,
  • chew over,
  • violence,
  • relate,
  • crease,
  • bewilder,
  • campaign,
  • human action,
  • ladder,
  • produce,
  • rehearse,
  • illuminate,
  • happen,
  • arouse,
  • loot,
  • exact,
  • prod,
  • treat,
  • crystallize,
  • come in,
  • streak,
  • stretch out,
  • saint,
  • sieve,
  • parent,
  • purge,
  • fly ball,
  • scramble,
  • all the way,
  • scoop up,
  • angle,
  • require,
  • separate out,
  • running,
  • provide,
  • harness,
  • think,
  • fabrication,
  • draw a bead on,
  • hornswoggle,
  • make believe,
  • flexure,
  • convey,
  • librate,
  • wriggle,
  • goldbrick,
  • imagine,
  • revaluation,
  • bump,
  • regorge,
  • contract,
  • opine,
  • creative thinker,
  • investment firm,
  • hunchbacked,
  • wardrobe,
  • propose,
  • fighting,
  • speciate,
  • fishing gear,
  • matter,
  • investment trust,
  • crunch,
  • cleared,
  • pierce,
  • discharge,
  • play,
  • digest,
  • restrict,
  • fight down,
  • slam,
  • tear into,
  • arrest,
  • elbow,
  • revisal,
  • sting,
  • shuffling,
  • ravel,
  • backer,
  • breed,
  • sample,
  • reside,
  • evoke,
  • negociate,
  • shoot,
  • heading,
  • stuff,
  • beaver,
  • see to it,
  • cope,
  • switch,
  • subspecies,
  • coach,
  • ramble,
  • exculpate,
  • pull through,
  • push back,
  • grind away,
  • proletariat,
  • lam into,
  • manoeuvre,
  • self-employed person,
  • cook up,
  • demeanour,
  • poring over,
  • rowlock,
  • grow,
  • retrospect,
  • coerce,
  • pull round,
  • take care,
  • safeguard,
  • dive,
  • twist,
  • cut into,
  • advertize,
  • quid,
  • spring,
  • kick in,
  • review article,
  • mercenary,
  • speed,
  • saber saw,
  • teach,
  • perspire,
  • wash,
  • military unit,
  • reappraisal,
  • asseverate,
  • lease,
  • become,
  • smother,
  • sick,
  • stew,
  • secure,
  • side,
  • facial expression,
  • coming,
  • rigging,
  • channelise,
  • retain,
  • sop up,
  • jab,
  • anesthetise,
  • scan,
  • break one's back,
  • contain,
  • fit the bill,
  • press,
  • take pains,
  • haste,
  • directly,
  • bow,
  • honor,
  • font,
  • do by,
  • look back,
  • agitate,
  • livelihood,
  • abrasion,
  • lay out,
  • face-off,
  • enact,
  • wait on,
  • draw close,
  • melodic line,
  • tour,
  • subvent,
  • task,
  • complete,
  • set off,
  • report card,
  • entreat,
  • offend,
  • cast,
  • dweeb,
  • larn,
  • passenger vehicle,
  • book binding,
  • starting line,
  • accelerate,
  • praxis,
  • scrap,
  • demeanor,
  • reassessment,
  • borrow,
  • vexation,
  • story,
  • leaning,
  • spue,
  • worm,
  • fairy,
  • hold,
  • crystalise,
  • driving,
  • step on it,
  • retread,
  • trudge,
  • sustain,
  • go in,
  • dig out,
  • plunge,
  • lettuce,
  • go far,
  • come up,
  • slit,
  • anaesthetise,
  • take in,
  • dip,
  • rise,
  • shove,
  • micturate,
  • swither,
  • tilt,
  • confidence game,
  • point,
  • take flight,
  • backwards,
  • train,
  • cohere,
  • hold on,
  • incision,
  • incline,
  • nurture,
  • binding,
  • jerk,
  • refresh,
  • sprain,
  • seize on,
  • cast around,
  • touch,
  • bit,
  • remake,
  • realize,
  • hash out,
  • beef up,
  • reenact,
  • further,
  • restrain,
  • transmit,
  • trounce,
  • bread and butter,
  • angel falls,
  • investment company,
  • backwash,
  • force-out,
  • scoop out,
  • remain,
  • wad,
  • beware,
  • upraise,
  • stool,
  • excoriation,
  • clear up,
  • filter out,
  • piss,
  • whirl,
  • jog,
  • flush,
  • ascent,
  • stagger,
  • believe,
  • acquit,
  • cud,
  • go along,
  • provender,
  • shot,
  • go off,
  • roll,
  • bone,
  • tame,
  • digging,
  • search,
  • heighten,
  • churn,
  • latch on,
  • subject,
  • blast,
  • bus,
  • perusal,
  • founder,
  • fold,
  • reboot,
  • knife thrust,
  • move,
  • contrive,
  • cabbage,
  • hurry,
  • ado,
  • abide by,
  • elaborate,
  • con game,
  • salary,
  • omnibus,
  • maneuver,
  • trial,
  • examine,
  • mould,
  • boob,
  • scrape,
  • gird,
  • levy,
  • seduce,
  • fly the coop,
  • moot,
  • motorcoach,
  • exchange,
  • repulse,
  • strained,
  • air,
  • watch,
  • fishing tackle,
  • submit,
  • flow,
  • swallow,
  • cogitate,
  • turn of events,
  • stick by,
  • advertise,
  • aliment,
  • observe,
  • judgement,
  • business concern,
  • hang on,
  • regurgitate,
  • quest after,
  • suppose,
  • wake,
  • come near,
  • behaviour,
  • focus on,
  • steep,
  • parkway,
  • lodge in,
  • cast off,
  • disgorge,
  • hand,
  • acquire,
  • cam stroke,
  • think over,
  • tighten,
  • precaution,
  • jade,
  • cannonball along,
  • exploit,
  • cadge,
  • prise,
  • utilisation,
  • write up,
  • look into,
  • mash,
  • burn midnight oil,
  • grappling,
  • withdraw,
  • ace,
  • face up,
  • put forward,
  • crystalize,
  • attentiveness,
  • film,
  • turn away,
  • chaw,
  • moderate,
  • hurtle,
  • oppose,
  • rear,
  • crookbacked,
  • tramp,
  • intromit,
  • celebrate,
  • dilate,
  • object,
  • get by,
  • sustenance,
  • scroll saw,
  • pinpoint,
  • recap,
  • charter,
  • give full measure,
  • tower,
  • quest for,
  • find,
  • apprehend,
  • wee,
  • array,
  • insistency,
  • footslog,
  • dominance,
  • plow,
  • wear upon,
  • comprehend,
  • master,
  • acclivity,
  • breastfeed,
  • gibbous,
  • expunge,
  • confuse,
  • headache,
  • hold back,
  • run on,
  • propel,
  • run into,
  • particularize,
  • grind,
  • chow,
  • subvention,
  • fly front,
  • serve,
  • vaporize,
  • hold in,
  • discover,
  • execute,
  • pin,
  • mold,
  • cheat,
  • get to,
  • conceive,
  • assert,
  • spend a penny,
  • labor movement,
  • moon,
  • butt,
  • change state,
  • computer address,
  • weary,
  • plump for,
  • take over,
  • take a leak,
  • excogitate,
  • flak,
  • change by reversal,
  • clamber,
  • poking,
  • clean,
  • humpbacked,
  • hold out,
  • force play,
  • drop,
  • nervous strain,
  • assoil,
  • advert,
  • f number,
  • straight,
  • feeler,
  • pass water,
  • amphetamine,
  • subroutine,
  • centre,
  • analyse,
  • var.,
  • pore,
  • come up to,
  • weigh,
  • bridge over,
  • endorse,
  • behavior,
  • defecate,
  • go into,
  • mull over,
  • crap,
  • rely on,
  • focal ratio,
  • game,
  • spate,
  • go up,
  • button,
  • look for,
  • iron,
  • found,
  • queer,
  • throw away,
  • dressed ore,
  • deform,
  • nerve,
  • unmediated,
  • act upon,
  • skimpy,
  • bet on,
  • dive into,
  • lineal,
  • relieve oneself,
  • comminute,
  • stopper,
  • run away,
  • leaven,
  • limber up,
  • vertebral column,
  • school,
  • call back,
  • stimulate,
  • welt,
  • suckle,
  • festinate,
  • affiance,
  • enkindle,
  • rub,
  • unclouded,
  • sentry duty,
  • transgress,
  • admit,
  • tense,
  • scraping,
  • worry,
  • manipulation,
  • straighten out,
  • lead,
  • crack the books,
  • crook,
  • elbow grease,
  • ascertain,
  • gelt,
  • upchuck,
  • puzzle out,
  • restraint,
  • cram,
  • manoeuver,
  • consort,
  • hit the books,
  • bucket along,
  • ballyhoo,
  • induce,
  • adjudicate,
  • sin,
  • commence,
  • try out,
  • parturiency,
  • jabbing,
  • flee,
  • channelize,
  • trot,
  • pull,
  • exonerate,
  • earn,
  • upsurge,
  • jitney,
  • engagement,
  • try on,
  • cubitus,
  • breeze through,
  • ramble on,
  • flimflam,
  • center on,
  • payoff,
  • master of ceremonies,
  • eat,
  • travel rapidly,
  • prize,
  • enquire,
  • top,
  • cane,
  • absorb,
  • feed in,
  • poof,
  • thole,
  • weight-lift,
  • hand-to-hand struggle,
  • scrub,
  • esteem,
  • keep in line,
  • single-valued function,
  • strap,
  • square up,
  • crop,
  • sputter,
  • polish,
  • melodic phrase,
  • put on,
  • invade,
  • tugboat,
  • chip in,
  • fort,
  • even up,
  • comport,
  • demand,
  • confrontation,
  • recruit,
  • mooch,
  • proffer,
  • outpouring,
  • insure,
  • authorize,
  • investigate,
  • employment,
  • squeeze,
  • harbor,
  • trust,
  • exculpated,
  • hastiness,
  • working class,
  • chuck,
  • guard duty,
  • bum,
  • sort out,
  • safety,
  • free-lance,
  • gone,
  • dissemble,
  • understand,
  • channel,
  • polish up,
  • generate,
  • occasion,
  • trouble,
  • interpret,
  • bread,
  • charabanc,
  • establish,
  • involve,
  • chafe,
  • mark,
  • rearwards,
  • gift,
  • wage hike,
  • start,
  • slur over,
  • mastermind,
  • fret,
  • craunch,
  • personnel,
  • collapse,
  • onset,
  • bunco,
  • entrust,
  • strike,
  • wrick,
  • naturalize,
  • savoir-faire,
  • implement,
  • intention,
  • social function,
  • roleplay,
  • view,
  • dig in,
  • come on,
  • make out,
  • distort,
  • get into,
  • enter,
  • number,
  • count,
  • swig,
  • boldness,
  • crush,
  • grant,
  • affair,
  • part,
  • barf,
  • check up on,
  • military group,
  • iron out,
  • calculate,
  • canvass,
  • pack,
  • map,
  • lace,
  • race,
  • battle,
  • suck up,
  • galley slave,
  • habituate,
  • stop up,
  • grasp,
  • plough,
  • paying attention,
  • followup,
  • translate,
  • screw,
  • aggress,
  • check out,
  • peon,
  • turn tail,
  • read up,
  • simoleons,
  • feast,
  • tip,
  • stand by,
  • spend,
  • conjure up,
  • enhance,
  • imperativeness,
  • judge,
  • provoke,
  • victimize,
  • clash,
  • remove,
  • sacrifice,
  • sweep through,
  • human elbow,
  • puke,
  • muse,
  • percipient,
  • speak,
  • attend,
  • call up,
  • expand,
  • jibe,
  • befuddle,
  • four-in-hand,
  • lolly,
  • brush,
  • quicken,
  • constrict,
  • mechanical press,
  • shaft,
  • cigarette,
  • go over,
  • check over,
  • mean,
  • streamlet,
  • hind,
  • dungeon,
  • patronize,
  • disembarrass,
  • spine,
  • meeting,
  • bear in mind,
  • prevail,
  • expression,
  • represent,
  • reexamine,
  • practice session,
  • unclutter,
  • itch,
  • use of goods and services,
  • gage,
  • rush,
  • receive,
  • inflame,
  • suck,
  • president ford,
  • drill,
  • palm,
  • decoct,
  • freelancer,
  • force out,
  • skimp over,
  • song,
  • strengthen,
  • prey,
  • devote,
  • slash,
  • launching,
  • move over,
  • wampum,
  • crimp,
  • ignite,
  • vomit up,
  • put to work,
  • redo,
  • piddle,
  • usance,
  • chaperone,
  • sack,
  • prove,
  • busy,
  • independent,
  • discommode,
  • pay,
  • toiling,
  • do work,
  • access,
  • ingest,
  • stake,
  • tender,
  • deliberate,
  • crookback,
  • tone-beginning,
  • run for,
  • memorise,
  • surrogate,
  • melt,
  • take a shit,
  • fox,
  • fount,
  • stay on,
  • turn on,
  • lope,
  • scratch up,
  • squirm,
  • tholepin,
  • lash,
  • effect,
  • lug,
  • hunt down,
  • realise,
  • hinge on,
  • bedevil,
  • fagot,
  • portray,
  • absolved,
  • kyphotic,
  • pulverization,
  • convince,
  • recitation.
  •pursue
  • pursuing,
  • worked at,
  • seeing through,
  • engaged in,
  • holding to.
  •tackle
  • embarked upon,
  • start ball rolling,
  • try for size,
  • squared off,
  • working on,
  • squaring off,
  • worked on.
  •work
  • freelancing,
  • moonlighting,
  • plugging away,
  • freelanced,
  • freelances,
  • moonlighted,
  • doing business,
  • did business,
  • Moiling.
  •Other relevant words (noun):
  • do one's best,
  • go at,
  • lay to,
  • stay at,
  • shoulder,
  • keep at,
  • hammer away,
  • stay with,
  • give one's all,
  • knock oneself out,
  • stick to,
  • drive,
  • stick with,
  • go all out,
  • pursue,
  • concentrate,
  • endeavour,
  • go to,
  • persist,
  • peg,
  • make an effort,
  • make every effort,
  • bang away,
  • stick at,
  • work hard,
  • bust a gut,
  • plug away,
  • carry on,
  • try,
  • attempt,
  • beaver away,
  • persevere.

Antonyms for Apply oneself:

• v.

  • buckle down
    ignore, be lazy, relax.
  • exert
    conceal, rest, laze, idle, hide.
  • hustle
    delay, wait, pull, slow, repress, suppress, dally, dissuade, procrastinate, leave alone.
  • lucubrate
    overlook, dismiss.
  • pursue
    discontinue, run away, stop, neglect, give up, forget, retreat, shun, eschew, halt, cease.
  • study
    disregard.
  • tackle
    avoid, dodge, end, complete, finish, conclude, abstain.
  • work
    destroy.