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   Toil

   /toil/

   

   verb

   • 1. work extremely hard or incessantly: "we toiled away" Similar work hardlaborwork 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 awayplow 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 difficultylabortrudgetramptraipseslogplodtrekfootslogsweatdrag oneselffight (one's way)pushinformal:trogyompschlep

   noun

   • 1. exhausting physical labor: "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’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. toiler noun

   Scrabble Points: 4

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