toil(Informal)[noun]Synonyms:- hard work, application, drudgery, effort, elbow grease
(informal), exertion, graft
(informal), slog, sweat
[verb]Synonyms:- work, drudge, graft
(informal), labour, slave, slog, strive, struggle, sweat
(informal), work one's fingers to the bone
Related Idioms: sweat of one's brow, toil and trouble
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I. toil1 /tɔɪl/
verb [intransitive always + adverb/preposition][
Date: 1200-1300;
Language: Anglo-French;
Origin: toiller, from Old French toeillier 'to disturb, argue', from Latin tudiculare 'to crush', from tudicula 'machine for crushing olives', from tudes 'hammer']
1. (
also toil away) to work very hard for a long period of time
toil at
I’ve been toiling away at this essay all weekend.2. literary to move slowly and with great effort
toil up/through/along etc They toiled slowly up the hill. [TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲
II. toil2 noun [uncountable] formal[
Sense 1: Date: 1300-1400;
Language: Anglo-French;
Origin: toyl, from Old French toeil 'battle, confusion', from toeillier; ⇒ toil1]
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Sense 2: Date: 1500-1600;
Origin: toil 'net' (16-19 centuries), from French toile; ⇒ toilet]
1. hard unpleasant work done over a long period:
a life of toil2. the toils of something literary if you are caught in the toils of an unpleasant feeling or situation, you are trapped by it
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