intransitive. To exert oneself strongly, make great efforts; to work hard, toil, labour, drudge. Often with infinitive.

intransitive. To labour, toil; = swink, v. 1.

intransitive. To labour, toil, work hard; to exert oneself, take trouble. Now rare (Scottish or archaic in later use).

To exert oneself; to labour, toil, work hard. Also figurative. intransitive. Without indication of purpose.

intransitive. To be anxious, be full of anxious thought, fret oneself; to labour anxiously, to toil and moil. Obsolete or archaic.

intransitive. To move the limbs ineffectually, to sprawl; to strike out at random with the arms or legs; to throw oneself about, as a person in a…

(intransitive) to toil hard.

intransitive. To perform physical or mental labour; to exert oneself physically or mentally; to work, esp. hard or against difficulties (frequently at…

intransitive. To work hard, exert oneself, labour.

To struggle, strive, contend; to labour. Obsolete.

intransitive. To struggle towards an aim or for a living; to engage intensively in hard or prolonged labour or exertion.

intransitive. Scottish. To exert oneself, work hard or laboriously; to struggle, esp. against adversity; to toil for a living. Also transitive with…

Associated with cark, v.1

intransitive. To toil, work hard, drudge. Now chiefly British regional except in to toil and moil (cf. toil and moil at moil, n.1 2).

intransitive. To toil, drudge; cf. moil, v. 2. Now dialect.

intransitive. To toil, to work hard. Obsolete. rare.

intransitive. To toil, labour, struggle; to go toilsomely, advance laboriously.

intransitive. To struggle, labour: = tug, v. 3.

intransitive. To undertake fatigue.

figurative. To work hard, toil; to make persistent and laborious attempts. Const. at.

intransitive. To work hard (at something, esp. something tedious); to labour, toil; to exert oneself; to take the trouble to do something, esp.…

intransitive. To work like a bullock, i.e. strenuously without intermission. Australian and New Zealand colloquial.

To deal heavy blows, to work hard (at something), to labour away, etc.

figurative. To give forth or get rid of as by sweating; slang, to spend, lay out (money). Also with away, out. In slang phrases: to sweat one's gut…

intransitive. To toil; to go or travel with effort, to traipse. Usually with adverb or adverbial phrase.

intransitive. To slog. Also with along, away.