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  • 11toil — toil1 toiler, n. /toyl/, n. 1. hard and continuous work; exhausting labor or effort. 2. a laborious task. 3. Archaic. battle; strife; struggle. v.i. 4. to engage in hard and continuous work; labor arduously: to toil in the fields. 5. to move or… …

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  • 12toil — English has two words toil, one of them now used only in the plural. Toil ‘work’ comes via Anglo Norman toiler ‘stir, agitate, wrangle’ from Latin tudiculāre ‘stir around’. This was derived from tudicula ‘mill for crushing olives’, a diminutive… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 13toil — English has two words toil, one of them now used only in the plural. Toil ‘work’ comes via Anglo Norman toiler ‘stir, agitate, wrangle’ from Latin tudiculāre ‘stir around’. This was derived from tudicula ‘mill for crushing olives’, a diminutive… …

    Word origins

  • 14toil — 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

  • 15toil — 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

  • 16toil — I. /tɔɪl / (say toyl) noun 1. hard and continuous work; exhausting labour or effort. 2. a laborious task. 3. Obsolete battle; strife; struggle. –verb (i) 4. to engage in severe and continuous work; labour arduously. 5. to move or travel with… …

  • 17toil — I. noun Etymology: Middle English toile, from Anglo French toyl, from toiller Date: 14th century 1. archaic a. struggle, battle b. laborious effort 2. long strenuous fatiguing labor Synonyms: see work • …

    New Collegiate Dictionary

  • 18toil — Synonyms and related words: bait, be employed, birdlime, bola, burden, carry on business, cobweb, cramp, cripple, cumber, dig, dirty work, do business, donkeywork, dragnet, drive, drudge, drudgery, embarrass, employment, encumber, enmesh, ensnarl …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 19toil — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. labor, drudgery; task, work; effort, exhaustion. v. work, drudge, moil, labor; strive. See exertion. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. labor, occupation, drudgery; see work 2 . v. Syn. sweat, labor, slave; see… …

    English dictionary for students

  • 20Double, Double, Toil and Trouble — DVD cover Directed by Stuart Margolin …

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