Toil

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • verb-intransitive. To labor continuously; work strenuously.
  • verb-intransitive. To proceed with difficulty: toiling over the mountains.
  • n. Exhausting labor or effort: "A bit of the blackest and coarsest bread is . . . the sole recompense and the sole profit attaching to so arduous a toil” ( George Sand). See Synonyms at work.
  • n. Archaic Strife; contention.
  • n. Something that binds, snares, or entangles one; an entrapment. Often used in the plural: caught in the toils of despair.
  • n. Archaic A net for trapping game.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. labour, work
  • n. trouble, strife
  • n. A net or snare; any thread, web, or string spread for taking prey; usually in the plural.
  • v. To labour; work.
  • v. To struggle.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A net or snare; any thread, web, or string spread for taking prey; -- usually in the plural.
  • verb-intransitive. To exert strength with pain and fatigue of body or mind, especially of the body, with efforts of some continuance or duration; to labor; to work.
  • v. To weary; to overlabor.
  • v. To labor; to work; -- often with out.
  • n. Labor with pain and fatigue; labor that oppresses the body or mind, esp. the body.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In the toils, ensnared; captured.
  • To pull about; tug; drag.
  • To harass; weary or exhaust by toil: often used reflexively (whence later, by omission of the reflexive pronoun, the intransitive use): sometimes with out.
  • To labor; work; till.
  • To work, especially for a considerable time, and with great or painful fatigue of body or mind; labor.
  • To move or travel with difficulty, weariness, or pain.
  • Synonyms To drudge, moil, strive. See the noun.
  • n. Confusion; turmoil; uproar; struggle; tussle.
  • n. Harassing labor; labor accompanied with fatigue and pain; exhausting effort.
  • n. A work accomplished; an achievement.
  • n. Synonyms Labor, Drudgery, etc. (see work, n.); effort, exertion, pains.
  • n. A net, snare, or gin; any web, cord, or thread spread for taking prey.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. productive work (especially physical work done for wages)
  • v. work hard
  • Verb Form
    toiled    toiles    toiling    toils   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    work    do work   
    Cross Reference
    Form
    toiled    toiling   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    labor    work    weary    overlabor    drudgery    occupation    employment    exertion    task    travail   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Boyle    Doyle    Hoyle    boil    broil    coil    embroil    foil    foyle    moyle   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    exertion    hardship    labour    drudgery    labors    suffer    misery    fatigue    torment    strife