Care and Recovery after Brain Surgery. After brain surgery, it will take time for the patient to return to his/her usual level of energy. Healing requires extra rest. The amount of time required to recover after brain surgery is different for each person and depends on: The procedure used to remove the brain tumor.
Synonyms: work, labor, toil 1, drudgery, travail. These nouns refer to physical or mental effort expended to produce or accomplish something. Work is the most widely applicable: hard work in the fields; did some work around the house on weekends; a first draft that still needs work.. To place or insert in by repeated or continuous effort: worked the pick into the lock. work off. To get rid of by work or effort: work off extra pounds; work off a debt.
Occasionally the phrase four-letter word is humorously used to describe common words composed of four letters. Typical examples include the word work, implying that work can be unpleasant, or the game of golf, jokingly referred to as a four-letter word when a player's pastime becomes an exercise in frustration. Work Is a Four-Letter Word is the title of a 1968 British comedy film. 2  That Four-Letter Word is a 2006 independent film from India. 3  Welsh punk band Four Letter Word, formed in 1991, named themselves after the phrase.