plugging (root: plug)

• POS: Verb (usu participle)
• HYPHEN: plug=ging

CIDE DICTIONARY

plugging, n. 

•  The act of stopping with a plug.  [1913 Webster]
•  The material of which a plug or stopple is made.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

plugging

application, assiduity, assiduous, assiduousness, bulldog tenacity, concentration, constancy, constant, continuing, diligence, diligent, dogged, dogged perseverance, doggedness, donkeywork, drudge, drudgery, drudging, endurance, enduring, engrossment, faithful, fidelity, grind, grinding, grubbing, hardworking, immutable, inalterable, indefatigability, indefatigable, indomitable, industrious, industriousness, industry, insistence, insistency, insistent, invincible, labor, laboring, lasting, loyal, loyalty, moil, never-tiring, obstinacy, obstinate, patience, patience of Job, patient, patient as Job, pegging, permanence, permanent, perseverance, perseverant, persevering, persistence, persistency, persistent, persisting, pertinacious, pertinaciousness, pertinacity, plodding, preoccupation, preoccupied, rapt, relentless, relentlessness, resolute, resolution, sedulity, sedulous, sedulousness, single-minded, single-mindedness, singleness of purpose, slavery, slaving, sleepless, slogging, stability, stable, stamina, staying power, steadfast, steadfastness, steadiness, steady, stick-to-itiveness, straining, striving, struggling, stubborn, stubbornness, sweating, tenacious, tenaciousness, tenacity, tireless, tirelessness, toil, toiling, unabating, unconquerable, undaunted, undiscouraged, undrooping, unfailing, unfaltering, unflagging, unflinching, unintermitting, uninterrupted, unnodding, unrelaxing, unrelenting, unremitting, unremittingness, unsleeping, unswerving, unswerving attention, untiring, unwavering, unwearied, unwearying, unwinking, utterly attentive, weariless, working