toil
21toil — 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… …
22toil — I UK [tɔɪl] / US verb [intransitive] Word forms toil : present tense I/you/we/they toil he/she/it toils present participle toiling past tense toiled past participle toiled literary 1) to work very hard doing something difficult and tiring,… …
23toil — 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… …
24toil — v. & n. v.intr. 1 work laboriously or incessantly. 2 make slow painful progress (toiled along the path). n. prolonged or intensive labour; drudgery. Phrases and idioms: toil worn worn or worn out by toil. Derivatives: toiler n. Etymology: ME f.… …
25toil — 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… …
26toil — 1. verb 1) she toiled all night Syn: work hard, labor, exert oneself, slave (away), grind away, strive, work one s fingers to the bone, put one s nose to the grindstone; informal slog away, plug away, beaver away, work one s butt off, sweat… …
27toil — 1. verb 1) she toiled all night Syn: work, labour, slave, strive; informal slog, beaver; Brit.; informal graft 2) she began to toil up the path Syn: struggle, drag oneself …
28toil — 1. noun a) labour, work ...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. b) trouble, strife 2 …
29toil — 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… …
30toil — [tɔɪl] verb [I] literary to work very hard toil noun [U] …
