Synonyms for Work on:

• n.

  •
  • active,
  • busy,
  • immersed in something,
  • knee-deep,
  • hard at it,
  • rushed,
  • rushed/run off your feet,
  • Hopping,
  • load down.
  •
  • encourage,
  • persuade,
  • dissuade,
  • urge on,
  • spur,
  • entice,
  • prod,
  • prevail on,
  • motivate,
  • convince.
  •
  • buckle down,
  • labor,
  • put your back into something,
  • overwork,
  • exert yourself,
  • toil,
  • apply yourself.
  •Other relevant words: (noun)
  • magnetize.
  •work at (noun)
  • work at.

• v.

  •annoy (verb)
  • break,
  • exasperate,
  • gnaw,
  • worry,
  • bore,
  • Henpeck,
  • needle,
  • tease,
  • nettle,
  • egg on,
  • t-off,
  • harry,
  • ruffle,
  • plague,
  • bother,
  • peeve,
  • get,
  • vex,
  • rile,
  • chafe,
  • displease,
  • agitate,
  • madden,
  • bug,
  • beleaguer,
  • trouble,
  • disturb,
  • turn off,
  • abrade,
  • distress,
  • push button,
  • bedevil,
  • ride,
  • nudge.
  •badger (verb)
  • annoy,
  • bait,
  • torment,
  • bully,
  • hound,
  • goad,
  • hassle.
  •besiege (verb)
  • blockade,
  • environ,
  • encompass,
  • beset,
  • trap,
  • encircle,
  • assail,
  • confine,
  • hem in,
  • attack,
  • work over,
  • lay siege to,
  • come at from all sides,
  • shut in,
  • congregate,
  • invest.
  •cajole (verb)
  • deceive,
  • banter,
  • tempt,
  • dupe,
  • seduce,
  • brownnose,
  • build up,
  • jolly,
  • mislead,
  • tantalize,
  • oil,
  • con,
  • maneuver,
  • lure,
  • decoy,
  • influence,
  • blandish,
  • push,
  • inveigle,
  • sweet-talk,
  • apple polish,
  • wheedle,
  • bootlick,
  • crowd,
  • beguile,
  • urge,
  • entrap,
  • massage,
  • delude,
  • induce,
  • soften,
  • snow,
  • stroke.
  •coax (verb)
  • blarney,
  • barter,
  • soothe,
  • hook,
  • rope in,
  • come on,
  • wangle,
  • arm-twist,
  • jawbone,
  • prevail upon,
  • allure,
  • worm,
  • talk into.
  •creation (verb)
  • process,
  • work on.
  •drive (verb)
  • compel,
  • overburden,
  • coerce,
  • kick,
  • pressure,
  • impel,
  • bulldoze,
  • shepherd,
  • stimulate,
  • dog,
  • send,
  • actuate,
  • hustle,
  • constrain,
  • propel,
  • prompt,
  • animate,
  • oblige,
  • chase,
  • force,
  • hurry,
  • shove,
  • rouse,
  • instigate,
  • rush,
  • pound,
  • ride herd on,
  • make,
  • inspire,
  • hurl,
  • arouse,
  • herd.
  •flatter (verb)
  • court,
  • grovel,
  • overpraise,
  • toady,
  • glorify,
  • cater to,
  • adulate,
  • Beslaver,
  • sell,
  • fawn,
  • praise,
  • humor,
  • salve,
  • charm.
  •harass (verb)
  • exhaust,
  • perplex,
  • irritate,
  • fatigue,
  • burn,
  • despoil,
  • try,
  • bullyrag,
  • strain,
  • maraud,
  • raid,
  • foray,
  • pain,
  • stress,
  • persecute,
  • macerate,
  • intimidate,
  • weary,
  • devil.
  •importune (verb)
  • beg,
  • ask,
  • entreat,
  • beseech,
  • dun,
  • supplicate,
  • invoke,
  • solicit,
  • crave,
  • pray,
  • appeal,
  • plead,
  • implore.
  •move (verb)
  • carry,
  • activate,
  • strike,
  • draw up,
  • recommend,
  • touch,
  • bring up,
  • inspirit,
  • propose,
  • stir,
  • put forward,
  • give rise to,
  • lead,
  • introduce,
  • cause,
  • impress,
  • affect,
  • quicken,
  • incite,
  • play on,
  • tug at,
  • suggest,
  • bring,
  • budge,
  • advocate,
  • submit,
  • excite,
  • operate,
  • convert,
  • get going,
  • start,
  • shift,
  • turn.
  •nag (verb)
  • berate,
  • egg,
  • upbraid,
  • fuss,
  • scold,
  • hector,
  • pick at.
  •Other relevant words: (verb)
  • transmute,
  • work,
  • transubstantiate,
  • transform.
  •pester (verb)
  • fret,
  • get at.
  •press (verb)
  • afflict,
  • oppress,
  • depress,
  • sadden,
  • squeeze,
  • demand,
  • weigh down,
  • disquiet,
  • sue,
  • come at,
  • petition,
  • enjoin.
  •sway (verb)
  • control,
  • govern,
  • manage,
  • rule,
  • dominate,
  • crack,
  • brainwash,
  • whitewash,
  • reign,
  • direct,
  • overrule,
  • guide,
  • predispose,
  • conduct.
  •sweet-talk (verb)
  • honey,
  • slaver.
  •tackle (verb)
  • pitch into,
  • launch,
  • devote oneself to,
  • come to grips with,
  • begin,
  • undertake,
  • essay,
  • turn one's hand to,
  • start the ball rolling,
  • turn to,
  • take in hand,
  • engage in,
  • take a shot at,
  • bang away at,
  • take up,
  • embark upon,
  • try on for size,
  • give a try,
  • attempt,
  • give a whirl,
  • go for it,
  • square off,
  • set about,
  • apply oneself,
  • deal with,
  • take on,
  • make a run at,
  • accept.
  •wheedle (verb)
  • lay it on,
  • finagle,
  • kowtow.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • slave.
  •besiege
  • blockading,
  • working over,
  • blockaded,
  • worked over,
  • be set,
  • encircled.
  •coax
  • Wormed,
  • WORMS,
  • Blarneying,
  • jawbones,
  • jawboning,
  • Worming,
  • jawboned,
  • roped in,
  • arm-twisting,
  • Blarneyed.
  •flatter
  • Humored,
  • overpraises,
  • caters to,
  • humoring,
  • catered to,
  • Overpraising,
  • catering to,
  • overpraised.
  •importune
  • DUNS,
  • Dunned,
  • Dunning.
  •move
  • giving rise to,
  • moves,
  • puts forward,
  • gives rise to,
  • in spirits,
  • getting going,
  • got going.
  •Other relevant words:
  • lean on,
  • find fault,
  • put to,
  • noodge,
  • heats up,
  • ridden,
  • nag,
  • soap,
  • eat,
  • take it out on,
  • buttonholed,
  • worked on,
  • eating,
  • laid on thick,
  • insist on,
  • Soaped,
  • Maneuvered,
  • hit where one lives,
  • drive crazy,
  • suck up to,
  • move,
  • give a bad time,
  • Soaping,
  • twist arm,
  • needling,
  • henpecked,
  • tackle,
  • getting to,
  • foraying,
  • fire up,
  • lead by the nose,
  • pressurize,
  • lay it on thick,
  • provoke,
  • buttonholes,
  • makes waves,
  • argue into,
  • Shepherded,
  • spread on,
  • lay on thick,
  • over-burden,
  • railroad,
  • led by the nose,
  • leaning on,
  • tire,
  • win over,
  • buttonhole,
  • give a hard time,
  • pester,
  • be at,
  • soften up,
  • getting around,
  • suck in,
  • get around,
  • hand line,
  • act upon,
  • get in one's hair,
  • fires up,
  • Harassing,
  • got to,
  • Snowing,
  • heckling,
  • inspires,
  • make up to,
  • besiege,
  • give the business,
  • Gnawing,
  • cajole,
  • hasten,
  • Plaguing,
  • goose,
  • mess with,
  • Fussing,
  • Importune,
  • overburdened,
  • get in hair,
  • Entrapped,
  • pressurizing,
  • jollied,
  • badger,
  • soft-soaping,
  • railroading,
  • jerked around,
  • working on,
  • Deviling,
  • heckle,
  • Nettles,
  • butter up,
  • play up to,
  • sweeten up,
  • soft-soaped,
  • steamroll,
  • eaten,
  • Egged,
  • tick off,
  • over-wrought,
  • ticked off,
  • press,
  • flatter,
  • jollying,
  • jerk around,
  • pressurized,
  • Snowed,
  • be on the back of,
  • burn up,
  • miff,
  • make waves,
  • hold sway over,
  • harassed,
  • put across,
  • buttonholing,
  • Egging,
  • Devilled,
  • rub the right way,
  • Shepherding,
  • sucked in,
  • take out on,
  • Fussed,
  • burned up,
  • spirit up,
  • turn one's head,
  • gooses,
  • toff,
  • harass,
  • heated up,
  • forayed,
  • put up to,
  • Inveigling,
  • heat up,
  • ask for it,
  • Jollies,
  • remind,
  • impact on,
  • entices,
  • perturb,
  • spread it on,
  • get on nerves,
  • pressurizes,
  • Deviled,
  • get on one's nerves,
  • drive,
  • laying it on thick,
  • goosed,
  • toffs,
  • ruled over,
  • drive up the wall,
  • gall,
  • Devilling,
  • get next to,
  • get to,
  • burning up,
  • acted upon,
  • rattle one's cage,
  • gets to,
  • sway,
  • twist one's arm,
  • soft-soap,
  • railroaded,
  • irk,
  • carp at,
  • hand a line,
  • noodges,
  • rule over,
  • goosing.
  •sweet-talk
  • honied,
  • Honeying.
  •tackle
  • devote to,
  • squared off,
  • try for size,
  • embarked upon,
  • start ball rolling,
  • devoted to,
  • squaring off,
  • engaged in.
  •wheedle
  • laid on,
  • laying on,
  • lay on.
  •Other relevant words (noun):
  • concentrate on,
  • pull strings,
  • change,
  • woo,
  • impose upon,
  • act on,
  • exhort,
  • make overtures,
  • dispose,
  • lobby,
  • incline,
  • coax,
  • focus on,
  • wire-pull,
  • draw,
  • treat,
  • high pressure,
  • approach,
  • pass the buck,
  • ingratiate oneself with,
  • use,
  • draw on,
  • operate on,
  • lead on,
  • bear upon,
  • ply,
  • shine up to,
  • call upon,
  • bleed,
  • apply pressure,
  • call on,
  • cultivate,
  • bring pressure to bear upon,
  • bias,
  • tax,
  • alter,
  • misuse,
  • work upon,
  • brown-nose,
  • play upon,
  • ill-use,
  • put over,
  • foist,
  • modify,
  • nag at,
  • drain,
  • take advantage of,
  • bleed white,
  • make use of,
  • impose on,
  • exploit,
  • manipulate,
  • make advances to,
  • exert influence,
  • pay court to,
  • insist upon,
  • milk,
  • set upon,
  • put on,
  • make advances,
  • insist,
  • abuse.

Antonyms for Work on:

• v.

  • annoy
    calm, help, mollify, quiet, comfort, gratify, delight, cheer, enchant, appease, assist, soothe, please, aid, charm, support, reassure, make happy.
  • badger
    leave alone.
  • besiege
    let go.
  • cajole
    bully, discourage, repulse, disenchant, repel, dissuade, turn off, force, disgust.
  • coax
    allow, not care.
  • drive
    delay, halt, hinder, pull, repress, dally, procrastinate, check, impede, retard, rest, wait, prevent, depress, slow, curb, stop.
  • flatter
    belittle, castigate, mismatch, condemn, insult, denounce, offend, ignore, criticize.
  • harass
    activate, encourage, build, explain, facilitate, assuage, placate, clarify, invigorate, refresh, energize, clear up.
  • importune
    answer, give, command, refuse, reply.
  • move
    fix, dull, lull, hold, lose, tranquilize, pause, suppress, keep, stay, dishearten, remain, oppose.
  • nag
    compliment, praise.
  • pester
    forget, pacify.
  • press
    gladden.
  • sway
    leave, mismanage, misunderstand, submit, mislead, yield, abandon, surrender, steady, misguide, neglect, miss, serve, fail.
  • sweet-talk
    irritate.
  • tackle
    abstain, avoid, idle, complete, finish, dodge, be lazy, end, conclude.

Hypernym for Work on:

• v.

  • creation
    overwork, rework, make over, cold work, tool, rack, till, hot-work, retread, coldwork.

Hyponym for Work on:

• v.

  • creation
    transubstantiate, transform, transmute.