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   toil

   /tɔɪl/

   verb

   • 1. work extremely hard or incessantly: "we toiled away" Similar work hardlabourwork one's fingers to the bonework like a Trojanwork like a dogwork day and nightexert oneselfkeep at itkeep one's nose to the grindstonegrind awayslave awaygrub awayplough awayplod awayinformal:slog awaypeg awaybeaver awayplug awayput one's back into somethingwork one's guts outwork one's socks offknock oneself outsweat bloodkill oneselfgraft awayfagbullockvulgar slang:work one's balls/arse/nuts offwork one's ass/butt offarchaic:drudgetravailmoilOpposite restrelaxlaze
   • ▪ move slowly and with difficulty: "she began to toil up the cliff path" Similar strugglemove with difficultylabourtrudgetramptraipseslogplodtrekfootslogsweatdrag oneselffight (one's way)pushinformal:trogyompschlep

   noun

   • 1. exhausting physical labour: "a life of toil"

   Word Origin Middle English (in the senses ‘contend verbally’ and ‘strife’): from Anglo-Norman French toiler ‘strive, dispute’, toil ‘confusion’, from Latin tudiculare ‘stir about’, from tudicula ‘machine for crushing olives’, related to tundere ‘crush’.

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   • 1. toiler noun

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   What does toil mean in English?

   • Although toil means "work" (in both its noun and verb forms), it usually has the added meaning of hard work, especially physical labor. If you'd lived during the Great Depression, you might have toiled on roadwork and conservation projects. Your toils would have created roads in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, for example.

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   What does toil and Labour mean?

   • With toil and labour I've reached a very fair height of refinement. When people toil, they work very hard doing unpleasant or tiring tasks. 7 meanings: 1. hard or exhausting work 2. → an obsolete word for strife 3. to labour 4. to progress with slow painful movements.... Click for more definitions.

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   What does Toiler mean?

   • [Middle English toilen, from Anglo-Norman toiler, to stir about, from Latin tudiculāre, from tudicula, a machine for bruising olives, diminutive of tudes, hammer .] toil′er n. n. 1. often toils Something that binds, snares, or entangles one; an entrapment: caught in the toils of despair.

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   What does toil away mean?

   • Toil away means the same as toil. She has toiled away at the violin for years. [V P + at/on] Nora toils away serving burgers at the local cafe. [VERB PARTICLE] If you toil somewhere, you move there slowly and with difficulty, usually because you are very tired. Arnold had his head down, gasping as he toiled up the hill. [VERB preposition/adverb]

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   Toil means hard work, especially work that makes you feel physically tired. It can also mean to work hard or to move with great effort. See more meanings, synonyms, examples and translations of toil in English.

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     TOIL translate: كَدح, يَكدَح. Learn more in the Cambridge...

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     TOIL translate: travailler dur, avancer avec peine, (dur)...

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     TOIL translate: усиленно трудиться . Learn more in the...

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     toil translate: 困難な仕事, （長時間）苦労して働く. Learn more in the...

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   Toil can be a noun or a verb, and it means hard work, labor, or struggle. Learn the synonyms, examples, etymology, and history of this word from the Merriam-Webster dictionary.

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   toil: 1 v work hard Synonyms: dig , drudge , fag , grind , labor , labour , moil , travail Type of: do work , work be employed n productive work (especially physical work done for wages) Synonyms: labor , labour Types: show 33 types... hide 33 types... roping capturing cattle or horses with a lasso corvee unpaid labor (as for the maintenance ...

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   Toil definition: hard and continuous work; exhausting labor or effort.. See examples of TOIL used in a sentence.

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   Toil means hard or exhausting work, or to work very hard doing unpleasant or tiring tasks. It can also mean to move somewhere slowly and with difficulty, or to achieve by toil. See word forms, pronunciation, origin, and usage examples.

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    Toil means hard or exhausting work, or a net or snare that entraps something. Find out the origin, usage, and translations of toil in different languages.