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Definition of toil in English: toilverb tɔɪltɔɪl [no object]1Work extremely hard or incessantly. with infinitive Richard toiled to build his editorial team Example sentencesExamples - They toil long hours in appalling conditions in machine shops and restaurants.
- Club members had toiled long and hard to build these rooms and the photographers were showing no respect.
- This was not because European workers toiled less intensively.
- Some of the party workers who had been toiling all day, and were still expecting a victory, retired to a nearby pub to enjoy themselves.
- There is little point in having workers toil long and hard to sweep the debris into neat piles, which are then left to withstand the ravages of wind, rain and speeding wheels.
- Workers had toiled to move dirt to fill in the deeper puddles and the match was able to proceed with two days of fast shooting in excellent weather.
- Hundreds eke out a living, toiling hard throughout the night.
- Those of us who toil every day at the Headquarters of the United Nations have become a little exasperated at seeing our institutional obituaries in the press.
- Of a kind and generous disposition he toiled hard all his life for the good of his family.
- He had toiled hard to earn it and it would long be his cherished possession.
- He thinks about this a moment and then issues a bleak verdict on the drug-policing system in which he's toiled for the past 25 years.
- This is a straightforward, unpretentious musical comedy about five cleaning women who toil night after night in a Calgary office building.
- After all, it's a complete waste to struggle and toil in order to accumulate possessions that you will have no use for in death.
- Geraldine's sixth class pupils were certainly as busy as Santa's little helpers as they toiled packing shoeboxes full of toys and other items.
- They are toiling away, working hard, and looking for the green light from the Minister of Finance.
- At a distance, the cranes, the earthmovers, the construction workers toiled hard and dug deep.
- Her working hours increase, her pay is cut, and the conditions under which she must toil become increasingly arduous.
- Even just a century ago, U.S. industrial workers toiled ten hours a day, six days a week and earned an average of $375 a year.
- Set amid terraced paddy fields where farmers in bamboo hats still till and toil much as they have done for centuries, Ubud has beautiful temples, traditional markets and a surprising number of upmarket shops.
- Something happened today that will really affect Christmas for New Zealanders who are out there, working hard and toiling away: interest rates went up.
Synonyms work hard, labour, work one's fingers to the bone, work like a Trojan, work like a dog, work day and night, exert oneself, keep at it, keep one's nose to the grindstone, grind away, slave away, grub away, plough away, plod away informal slog away, peg away, beaver away, plug away, put one's back into something, work one's guts out, work one's socks off, knock oneself out, sweat blood, kill oneself British informal graft away, fag Australian/New Zealand informal bullock British vulgar slang work one's balls/arse/nuts off North American vulgar slang work one's ass/butt off archaic drudge, travail, moil - 1.1with adverbial of direction Move slowly and with difficulty.
she began to toil up the cliff path Example sentencesExamples - Having done some cycling in England as a teenager, I have admired the amateur cyclists I've seen toiling up those climbs and can appreciate the difficulty of the last segment of stage eight.
- The expedition continued to toil north, and continued to leak men, as deserters wilier than Collins slipped away night after night.
- I strap everything to my pack, and toil my way up the last three miles in my soggy snowboard boots.
- I gave my pony to a native and began to toil up the hillside with the infantry.
Synonyms struggle, move with difficulty, labour, trudge, tramp, traipse, slog, plod, trek, footslog, sweat, drag oneself, fight (one's way), push British informal trog, yomp North American informal schlep
noun tɔɪltɔɪl mass nounExhausting physical labour. Example sentencesExamples - Nevertheless, the joy of knowing that those bookshelves were the result of your own toil and labour can be beyond measure, even if they are a bit wonky.
- Now when I talk about effort here I don't mean some awful dreary toil.
- Despite their faintness, Goya's lines retain everywhere a sense of hard physical toil.
- Days are drenched in the strong scent of cigarette smoke, all-purpose soap, cow manure, eucalyptus leaf, espresso coffee, and the bouquet of our toil and sweat.
- It wasn't the hours of toil, sweat and petrol clearing the footpath which concerned me, but the wasted wheat.
- For the most part, food on the journey would be simple: something that stored well and needed little preparation, and yet was hearty enough to give the energy needed for hard physical toil.
- Curving stone walls crisscrossed the landscapes, testifying to centuries of toil and sweat by inhabitants, creating soft, green pastures for livestock.
- Bill was a man who worked hard all his life without becoming a slave to toil.
- All that effort, toil and rhetoric is finished and now winners and losers have to face the results.
- He began to build levees to stem the flooding but after nine years of exhausting toil, the position worsened everywhere.
- There is no hint of self-consciousness from this writing, no whiff of labour or toil.
- Churchill responded by exhorting them to fight on the beaches and promised them only blood, tears, toil and sweat.
- But local firms provided plants and materials, and after a fortnight's toil the job was done.
- Unless we are to believe naively that leisure and luxury crystallize out of thin air, we must recognize and acknowledge that the comforts of globalization are reaped from the labour and toil of others.
- But any music fan should enjoy seeing the blood, sweat and toil that goes into making the end product we all buy.
- I have discovered that when it comes to physical toil, some work placement students act like consultants.
- After six and a half years of toil and sweat, I was finally done!
- Over the summer months of toil and voluntary effort it will yet again become apparent who has earned the right to have their say.
- All his life Nelson was profoundly aware of the drudgery of toil, whether on the furrow or the lower deck, and humanely responsive to the concerns of the least privileged.
- The dirt and grime of industrial toil has been largely replaced by white-collar jobs.
Synonyms hard work, toiling, labour, slaving, struggle, effort, exertion, application, industry, grind, slog, {blood, sweat, and tears}, drudgery informal sweat, elbow grease British informal graft Australian/New Zealand informal (hard) yakka archaic travail, moil
Derivatives noun ˈtɔɪləˈtɔɪlər Italy has seen the success of the Slow Food movement, and at a recent conference on idling there, it was claimed that idlers are smarter than toilers as they can do the same amount of work in half the time. Example sentencesExamples - The most important meal in many a toiler's life is the lunch because breakfast seems to be disappearing in our increasingly frenetic lifestyle.
- He speaks frequently; the old man speaks from time to time; the woman says almost nothing; but the toilers in the field, row upon row, catch only a few words each before the procession moves on.
- They preferred to claim that they had resisted the charms of embourgeoisement and still stood shoulder to shoulder with the fellow toilers from whom they or their parents had sprung.
- It is this union movement of city and rural toilers that has the power to end capitalism.
Origin Middle English (in the senses 'contend verbally' and 'strife'): from Anglo-Norman French toiler 'strive, dispute', toil 'confusion', from Latin tudiculare 'stir about', from tudicula 'machine for crushing olives', related to tundere 'crush'. toilet from mid 16th century: A toilet was originally a cloth used as a wrapper for clothes or a covering for a dressing table, from French toilette ‘cloth, wrapper’. From the first meaning developed a group of senses relating to dressing and washing, including ‘the process of washing, dressing, and attending to your appearance’, now rather dated, which is also expressed in the French form toilette. In the 18th century it was fashionable for a lady to receive visitors during the later stages of her ‘toilet’, which led to uses such as this by the dramatist Sir Richard Steele in 1703: ‘You shall introduce him to Mrs Clerimont's Toilet.’ People started using the word for a dressing room, and, in the USA, one with washing facilities. It was not until the early 20th century that it became a particular item of plumbing, namely a lavatory. See also loo. The French word was a diminutive of toile, used for a type of dress fabric since the late 18th century, and of toils (mid 16th century) for entrapment, a figurative use of an earlier sense, ‘net’. Toil in the sense of hard work in Middle English has had a bad reputation from the start, as it was originally used to mean ‘strife, quarrel, battle’, and from then came to be used for something unpleasantly hard. It comes via French from Latin tudiculare ‘stir about’.
Rhymes boil, Boyle, broil, coil, Dáil, Doyle, embroil, Fianna Fáil, foil, Hoyle, moil, noil, oil, roil, Royle, soil, spoil, voile Definition of toil in US English: toilverbtɔɪltoil [no object]1Work extremely hard or incessantly. with infinitive Richard toiled to build his editorial team Example sentencesExamples - Her working hours increase, her pay is cut, and the conditions under which she must toil become increasingly arduous.
- Workers had toiled to move dirt to fill in the deeper puddles and the match was able to proceed with two days of fast shooting in excellent weather.
- Even just a century ago, U.S. industrial workers toiled ten hours a day, six days a week and earned an average of $375 a year.
- Set amid terraced paddy fields where farmers in bamboo hats still till and toil much as they have done for centuries, Ubud has beautiful temples, traditional markets and a surprising number of upmarket shops.
- They toil long hours in appalling conditions in machine shops and restaurants.
- They are toiling away, working hard, and looking for the green light from the Minister of Finance.
- Something happened today that will really affect Christmas for New Zealanders who are out there, working hard and toiling away: interest rates went up.
- This is a straightforward, unpretentious musical comedy about five cleaning women who toil night after night in a Calgary office building.
- Geraldine's sixth class pupils were certainly as busy as Santa's little helpers as they toiled packing shoeboxes full of toys and other items.
- At a distance, the cranes, the earthmovers, the construction workers toiled hard and dug deep.
- Hundreds eke out a living, toiling hard throughout the night.
- This was not because European workers toiled less intensively.
- Those of us who toil every day at the Headquarters of the United Nations have become a little exasperated at seeing our institutional obituaries in the press.
- Of a kind and generous disposition he toiled hard all his life for the good of his family.
- He had toiled hard to earn it and it would long be his cherished possession.
- There is little point in having workers toil long and hard to sweep the debris into neat piles, which are then left to withstand the ravages of wind, rain and speeding wheels.
- He thinks about this a moment and then issues a bleak verdict on the drug-policing system in which he's toiled for the past 25 years.
- Some of the party workers who had been toiling all day, and were still expecting a victory, retired to a nearby pub to enjoy themselves.
- Club members had toiled long and hard to build these rooms and the photographers were showing no respect.
- After all, it's a complete waste to struggle and toil in order to accumulate possessions that you will have no use for in death.
Synonyms work hard, labour, work one's fingers to the bone, work like a trojan, work like a dog, work day and night, exert oneself, keep at it, keep one's nose to the grindstone, grind away, slave away, grub away, plough away, plod away - 1.1with adverbial of direction Move slowly and with difficulty.
she began to toil up the cliff path Example sentencesExamples - I strap everything to my pack, and toil my way up the last three miles in my soggy snowboard boots.
- The expedition continued to toil north, and continued to leak men, as deserters wilier than Collins slipped away night after night.
- I gave my pony to a native and began to toil up the hillside with the infantry.
- Having done some cycling in England as a teenager, I have admired the amateur cyclists I've seen toiling up those climbs and can appreciate the difficulty of the last segment of stage eight.
Synonyms struggle, move with difficulty, labour, trudge, tramp, traipse, slog, plod, trek, footslog, sweat, drag oneself, fight, fight one's way, push
nountɔɪltoil Exhausting physical labor. Example sentencesExamples - Curving stone walls crisscrossed the landscapes, testifying to centuries of toil and sweat by inhabitants, creating soft, green pastures for livestock.
- For the most part, food on the journey would be simple: something that stored well and needed little preparation, and yet was hearty enough to give the energy needed for hard physical toil.
- Nevertheless, the joy of knowing that those bookshelves were the result of your own toil and labour can be beyond measure, even if they are a bit wonky.
- I have discovered that when it comes to physical toil, some work placement students act like consultants.
- Unless we are to believe naively that leisure and luxury crystallize out of thin air, we must recognize and acknowledge that the comforts of globalization are reaped from the labour and toil of others.
- Over the summer months of toil and voluntary effort it will yet again become apparent who has earned the right to have their say.
- There is no hint of self-consciousness from this writing, no whiff of labour or toil.
- Bill was a man who worked hard all his life without becoming a slave to toil.
- Churchill responded by exhorting them to fight on the beaches and promised them only blood, tears, toil and sweat.
- Days are drenched in the strong scent of cigarette smoke, all-purpose soap, cow manure, eucalyptus leaf, espresso coffee, and the bouquet of our toil and sweat.
- Now when I talk about effort here I don't mean some awful dreary toil.
- But local firms provided plants and materials, and after a fortnight's toil the job was done.
- But any music fan should enjoy seeing the blood, sweat and toil that goes into making the end product we all buy.
- The dirt and grime of industrial toil has been largely replaced by white-collar jobs.
- After six and a half years of toil and sweat, I was finally done!
- Despite their faintness, Goya's lines retain everywhere a sense of hard physical toil.
- It wasn't the hours of toil, sweat and petrol clearing the footpath which concerned me, but the wasted wheat.
- All his life Nelson was profoundly aware of the drudgery of toil, whether on the furrow or the lower deck, and humanely responsive to the concerns of the least privileged.
- He began to build levees to stem the flooding but after nine years of exhausting toil, the position worsened everywhere.
- All that effort, toil and rhetoric is finished and now winners and losers have to face the results.
Synonyms hard work, toiling, labour, slaving, struggle, effort, exertion, application, industry, grind, slog, blood, sweat, and tears, drudgery
Origin Middle English (in the senses ‘contend verbally’ and ‘strife’): from Anglo-Norman French toiler ‘strive, dispute’, toil ‘confusion’, from Latin tudiculare ‘stir about’, from tudicula ‘machine for crushing olives’, related to tundere ‘crush’. |