working on
Engaged with now
Working on indicates active effort toward something.
You can be working on a project, working on your marriage, or working on getting better at chess.
The phrase implies sustained attention rather than completion: I'm still working on it suggests progress without a finished result.
To work on someone is to try persuading them: She's been working on her parents to let her go.
- developingBecoming more advanced
- creatingMaking something new
- improvingBecoming more capable
- solvingFinding the answer
- hashing outDiscussing until resolved
building · hammering out · advancing · making headway · refining · enhancing · focusing · addressing · tinkering · wrestling · striving · wheedling · in the process of · analyzing · selling · jawboning · laboring · burning midnight oil
working onfinished with
No longer needing
ignoring · neglecting · abandoning · completed · avoiding
working onfinished with
No longer needing
completed · wrapped up · concluded · abandoned · scrapped
working ondestroying
Causing complete ruin
dismantling · tearing down · undoing · sabotaging · wrecking
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