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toil

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[ toil ]

noun

  1. hard and continuous work; exhausting labor or effort.

    Synonyms: , ,

    Antonyms: ,

  2. a laborious task.
  3. Archaic. battle; strife; struggle.


verb (used without object)

  1. to engage in hard and continuous work; labor arduously:

    to toil in the fields.

    Synonyms: ,

  2. to move or travel with difficulty, weariness, or pain.

verb (used with object)

  1. to accomplish or produce by toil.

toil

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[ toil ]

noun

  1. Usually toils.
    1. a net or series of nets in which game known to be in the area is trapped or into which game outside of the area is driven.
    2. trap; snare:

      to be caught in the toils of a gigantic criminal conspiracy.

  2. Archaic. any snare or trap for wild beasts.

toil

1

/ ɔɪ /

noun

  1. hard or exhausting work
  2. an obsolete word for strife
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

verb

  1. intr to labour
  2. intr to progress with slow painful movements

    to toil up a hill

  3. archaic.
    tr to achieve by toil
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

toil

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/ ɔɪ /

noun

  1. often plural a net or snare

    the toils of fortune had ensnared him

  2. archaic.
    a trap for wild beasts
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈٴǾ, noun
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • ٴǾİ noun
  • ܲ·ٴǾiԲ adjective
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of toil1

First recorded in 1300–50; Middle English noun toil(e) “violent conflict, battle,” from Anglo-French toil(e), toyl “contention,” from Old French toeil, tooil “confusion, contention, battle,” ultimately from Latin ٳܻ徱ܱ “to stir up, beat,” verbal derivative of tudicula “machine for crushing olives,” equivalent to tudi- (stem of tundere “to strike, beat”) + -cula -cule 2

Origin of toil2

Fifst recorded in 1520–30; from French toile, from Latin ŧ “w”
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of toil1

C13: from Anglo-French toiler to struggle, from Old French toeillier to confuse, from Latin ٳܻ徱ܱ to stir, from tudicula machine for bruising olives, from tudes a hammer, from tundere to beat

Origin of toil2

C16: from Old French toile, from Latin ŧ loom
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The story touches on matters of body image and sexual autonomy within their community of immigrant women, who are often shown toiling inside a garment factory amid the sweltering summer heat of 1987.

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Videos generated by artificial intelligence that show obese Americans toiling in garment factories.

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Everyone else is trudging along, if not toiling through a flat-out slump.

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The series depicted the lives of the staff toiling downstairs at 165 Eaton Place and the wealthy Bellamy family living above.

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But more importantly, somewhere in a data centre some hot computer servers were toiling away to make Action Figure Zoe.

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The noun toil refers to hard and continuous work. How is toil different from drudgery, labor, and work? Find out on .

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