"bang away" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: en-au-bang away.ogg [Australia] Forms: bangs away [present, singular, third-person], banging away [participle, present], banged away [participle, past], banged away [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} bang away (third-person singular simple present bangs away, present participle banging away, simple past and past participle banged away)
  1. (idiomatic, intransitive) to strike or hit repeatedly Tags: idiomatic, intransitive Translations (to strike or hit repeatedly): paukuttaa (Finnish), hakata (Finnish), matraquer (French)
    Sense id: en-bang_away-en-verb-Xf28LGOp Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs with particle (away) Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 34 42 23 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs with particle (away): 33 39 28 Disambiguation of 'to strike or hit repeatedly': 94 4 2
  2. (idiomatic, intransitive) to work tirelessly Tags: idiomatic, intransitive Translations (to work tirelessly): puurtaa (Finnish), pakertaa (Finnish), bûcher (French), marner (French)
    Sense id: en-bang_away-en-verb-tKnEG9xN Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs with particle (away) Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 34 42 23 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs with particle (away): 33 39 28 Disambiguation of 'to work tirelessly': 5 92 3
  3. (idiomatic, intransitive) to constantly and irritatingly talk (about) Tags: idiomatic, intransitive Translations (to talk about something constantly and irritatingly): naputtaa (Finnish), tanner (French), insister (French)
    Sense id: en-bang_away-en-verb-sbeHO0vh Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs with particle (away) Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 34 42 23 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs with particle (away): 33 39 28 Disambiguation of 'to talk about something constantly and irritatingly': 10 13 77
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: bang on

Inflected forms

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      "code": "fi",
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      "sense": "to strike or hit repeatedly",
      "word": "paukuttaa"
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to strike or hit repeatedly",
      "word": "hakata"
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      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to strike or hit repeatedly",
      "word": "matraquer"
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      "sense": "to work tirelessly",
      "word": "puurtaa"
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to work tirelessly",
      "word": "pakertaa"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to work tirelessly",
      "word": "bûcher"
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    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to work tirelessly",
      "word": "marner"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to work tirelessly",
      "word": "marner"
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      "code": "fi",
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      "sense": "to talk about something constantly and irritatingly",
      "word": "naputtaa"
    },
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      "code": "fr",
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      "sense": "to talk about something constantly and irritatingly",
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      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to talk about something constantly and irritatingly",
      "word": "insister"
    },
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      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to talk about something constantly and irritatingly",
      "word": "insister"
    }
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