Toil

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English

Noun

Toil (plural Toils)
  1. labour, work
    • 1908: Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
      ...he set to work again and made the snow fly in all directions around him. After some further toil his efforts were rewarded, and a very shabby door-mat lay exposed to view.
  2. trouble, strife

Verb

Toil (third-person singular simple present Toils, present participle Toiling, simple past and past participle Toiled)

  1. to labour, to work
  2. to struggle

Adjectives for Toil

precarious; unhonored; manly; unrequited; exhausting; terrible; profitable; wholesome; philanthropic; unremitting; irksome; contented; hideous; pernicious; happy; filthy; sporadic; wasting; eager; smiling; rugged ; blundering; griping; unceasing; earnest; delicious; fragrant; loving; arduous; sickening; desperate; earthly; successful; anxious; double; brave; stormy; noble; honest; meridian; ferocious; sultry; humble; squalid; elaborate; unrepaid; spasmodic; wasting; sullen; drudging; captive; patient; unhallowed; benignant; productive; fatiguing; congenial; ingenious; unusual; incessant; pernicious; sportive.

Verbs for Toil

abate—; achieve by—; amass by—; cease—; consume in—; delight in—; ease—; hallow —; mitigate—; necessitate—; obviate—; plunge into—; relax—; reward—; shirk—; slacken—; —exhausts; —fags; —fatigues; —jades; —strains; —taxes; —wearies.

Adverbs for Toil

patiently; laboriously plainingly; manfully painfully; assiduously ceaselessly; uncombodily; stealthily; conscientiously; vigorously; sickeningly; precariously; exhaust.. ingly; philanthropically; irksomely; incessantly; arduously; fatiguingly; perniciously.

Thesaurus

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, entangle, entoil, entrammel, entrap, entwine, fag, fatigue, fetter, fishhook, fly, follow a trade, gill net, grind, ground bait, grub, hammer, hammer away, hamper, hamstring, handicap, handiwork, handwork, have a job, hobble, hook, impede, industry, involve, jig, keep up, labor, lame, lariat, lasso, lick, lick of work, lime, lumber, lure, manual labor, meshes, moil, moonlight, muck, net, noose, peg, peg away, plod, plug, plug along, plug away, pound away, pound net, practice a profession, press down, purse seine, rat race, saddle with, scut work, seine, set up shop, shackle, slave, slavery, slog, slogging, slop, snare, snarl, sniggle, spadework, spinner, springe, squid, stay employed, stodge, strain, strive, stroke, stroke of work, sweat, tangle, task, tiresome work, toils, trammel, transact business, trash, travail, trawl, treadmill, trudge, tug, wade through, weigh down, wobbler, work, work at, work away, work for

Pronunciation


Translations

Noun

labor, work
trouble, strife
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Verb

to labor, to work

See also

Anagrams

Basque

Noun

Toil

  1. conger eel

Irish

Noun

Toil f.

  1. will

Etymology

From Old Irish tol (“will, desire”).

Declension

Third declension
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Bare forms (no plural for this noun):

Case Singular
Nominative toil
Vocative a thoil
Genitive tola
Dative toil

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Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular
Nominative an toil
Genitive na tola
Dative leis an toil

don toil

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
toil thoil dtoil
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Derived terms

Scottish Gaelic

Noun

  1. will, desire, volition, inclination
  2. delight, pleasure

Pronunciation

  • IPA: [t̪ɔl]

Etymology

From Old Irish tol (“will, desire”).

Phrases

  • Is toil leum - I like
  • Mas e do thoil e - please


Derived terms

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