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toil
1/ tɔɪl /
noun
- often plural a net or snare
the toils of fortune had ensnared him
- archaic.a trap for wild beasts
toil
2/ tɔɪl /
noun
- hard or exhausting work
- an obsolete word for strife
verb
- intr to labour
- intr to progress with slow painful movements
to toil up a hill
- archaic.tr to achieve by toil
Derived Forms
- ˈtoiler, noun
Other Words From
- toiler noun
- un·toiling adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of toil1
Origin of toil2
Word History and Origins
Origin of toil1
Origin of toil2
Example Sentences
The reward for all that toil is something part liquid, part solid that has zero electrical resistance at room temperature—making it a superconductor.
For me, at least, suffering on the trail means that the pain and toil tend to crowd out space for convenience.
The Disc Embedding Theorem rewrites a proof completed in 1981 by Michael Freedman — about an infinite network of discs — after years of solitary toil on the California coast.
The best applications are often those made at the last minute, because applicants do not overthink their responses and toil over details they think need to be shoved into a question.
Yes, progress is being made, but it must be faster if the current toils of agency execs are anything to go by.
What does man gain by all the toil at which he toils under the sun?
In the years 1914-18, women flooded into the workplace to take on the toil of men conscripted to fight.
But football is a game in which a moment of magic can undo an hour of toil.
These early British settlers soon established tobacco then sugar cane plantations and started importing workers to toil on them.
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.
He was rejoicing in the upheaval that permitted debts to be paid with a bludgeon and money to be made without toil.
Not too big for the fiery old heart that trouble and toil and hunger and loneliness had never quenched.
He was now evidently exhausted by toil, and dispirited by disappointment.
Thus it lightens the toil of the weary laborer plodding along the highway of life.
The comfortable yet humble apartments of the engraver were over the shop where he plied his daily toil.
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What are other ways to say toil?
The noun toil refers to hard and continuous work. How is toil different from drudgery, labor, and work? Find out on Thesaurus.com.
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