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toil (verb)

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  • toil — ► VERB 1) work extremely hard or incessantly. 2) move somewhere slowly and with difficulty. ► NOUN ▪ exhausting work. DERIVATIVES toiler noun. ORIGIN Old French toiler strive, dispute , from Latin tudiculare stir about …   English terms dictionary

  • TOIL — index effort, endeavor (noun), endeavor (verb), industry (activity), labor (work), labor, persevere …   Law dictionary

  • toil and moil — verb to work hard; to drudge; to toil, to moil …   Wiktionary

  • toil — verb work extremely hard or incessantly. ↘move slowly and with difficulty. noun hard physical work. Derivatives toiler noun Origin ME: from Anglo Norman Fr. toiler strive, dispute , toil confusion , from L. tudiculare stir about , from tudicula… …   English new terms dictionary

  • toil — [[t]tɔ͟ɪl[/t]] toils, toiling, toiled 1) VERB When people toil, they work very hard doing unpleasant or tiring tasks. [LITERARY] People who toiled in dim, dank factories were too exhausted to enjoy their family life... [V n] Workers toiled long… …   English dictionary

  • toil — {{11}}toil (n.1) hard work, c.1300, turmoil, contention, dispute, from Anglo Fr. toil (13c.), from toiler agitate, stir up, entangle, from O.Fr. toeillier drag about, make dirty (12c.), usually said to be from L. tudiculare crush with a small… …   Etymology dictionary

  • toil — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun ADJECTIVE ▪ back breaking, grinding, hard (esp. BrE) ▪ ceaseless, endless, unceasing ▪ daily ▪ …   Collocations dictionary

  • toil — toil1 [ tɔıl ] verb intransitive LITERARY 1. ) to work very hard doing something difficult and tiring, especially physical work: Farm laborers have to toil in the fields all day. 2. ) to move slowly using a lot of effort: Harry toiled up the… …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • toil — I UK [tɔɪl] / US verb [intransitive] Word forms toil : present tense I/you/we/they toil he/she/it toils present participle toiling past tense toiled past participle toiled literary 1) to work very hard doing something difficult and tiring,… …   English dictionary

  • toil — 1 verb (intransitive always + adv/prep) 1 also toil away to work very hard for a long period of time (+ at/over): I ve been toiling away at this essay all weekend. 2 to move slowly and with great effort (+ up/through/against etc): They toiled… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • toil — 1. verb 1) she toiled all night Syn: work hard, labor, exert oneself, slave (away), grind away, strive, work one s fingers to the bone, put one s nose to the grindstone; informal slog away, plug away, beaver away, work one s butt off, sweat… …   Thesaurus of popular words

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