"hack away" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "hacks away",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hacking away",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hacked away",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hacked away",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      },
      "expansion": "hack away (third-person singular simple present hacks away, present participle hacking away, simple past and past participle hacked away)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
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        {
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To make progress on a difficult problem; to continue trying."
      ],
      "id": "en-hack_away-en-verb-NMR-v41E",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive or intransitive) To make progress on a difficult problem; to continue trying."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive",
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "to hack away at the tough roots of a tree"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hack, away."
      ],
      "id": "en-hack_away-en-verb-ySCmlw8I",
      "links": [
        [
          "hack",
          "hack#English"
        ],
        [
          "away",
          "away#English"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "hack away"
}

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    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English phrasal verbs",
    "English phrasal verbs formed with \"away\"",
    "English verbs",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "hacks away",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hacking away",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hacked away",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hacked away",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      },
      "expansion": "hack away (third-person singular simple present hacks away, present participle hacking away, simple past and past participle hacked away)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To make progress on a difficult problem; to continue trying."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive or intransitive) To make progress on a difficult problem; to continue trying."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive",
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "to hack away at the tough roots of a tree"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hack, away."
      ],
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        [
          "hack",
          "hack#English"
        ],
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          "away",
          "away#English"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "hack away"
}