Bask and Peg away

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Bask verb - To refrain from labor or exertion.

Usage example: we blissfully basked at the seashore over the long holiday

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Peg away is an antonym for bask.

Nearby Word: basking

Peg away verb - To devote serious and sustained effort.

Usage example: the writer pegged away at his first novel for three years before he felt that it was ready to be published

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Bask is an antonym for peg away.

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