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Definition of drudge : 1. One who drudges; one who works hard in servile employment; a mental servant.
2. To consume laboriously; - with away.
3. To perform menial work; to labor in mean or unpleasant offices with toil and fatigue.

Synonyms:

hack, dogsbody, burner of midnight oil, comprehend, crammer, tire, wear upon, bray, get the picture, delve, plug, taxi, fag, grate, churn, hollow, stab, excavate, toil, turn over, grok, fag out, roil, fatigue, wear out, weary, laborer, wear down, grind, labor, scullion, hacker, compass, menial, craunch, slave, political hack, boil, work, prod, cut into, tire out, poke, peon, navvy, plodder, literary hack, grub, dig out, cranch, crunch, drone, outwear, dig up, nag, ward-heeler, push, lackey, jab, cab, drive, cyber-terrorist, toiler, mash, travail, machine politician, workhorse, grasp, wear, savvy, hack writer, cyberpunk, galley slave, dig, jade, apprehend, labour, taxicab, comminute, tug, moil

Usage examples:

• Surely, if a woman is denied any lot in life but that of being the personal body- servant of a despot, and is dependent for everything upon the chance of finding one who may be disposed to make a favourite of her instead of merely a drudge, it is a very cruel aggravation of her fate that she should be allowed to try this chance only once. - "The Subjection of Women", John Stuart Mill.
• You want to be something besides a drudge. - "Mary Rose of Mifflin", Frances R. Sterrett.
• To drudge; to labor to weariness; to become weary. - "A Collection of College Words and Customs", Benjamin Homer Hall.