Definition of "drudging" [drudging]

• Present participle of drudge. (verb)

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• "He sighed as he recalled his drudging rise in business, since his father's old partner had set his life work out before him, when the lonely boy had finished with honor his course at Ann Arbor."
• "That's the kind of drudging up that's not helpful."
• "Visions I had no business drudging up—skinned knees, Mom bandaging me—rustled from deep down like dead bodies pushing aside dirt."