toils
noun /tɔɪlz/
/tɔɪlz/
[plural] (formal or literary)- if you are caught in the toils of an unpleasant feeling or situation, you cannot escape from it synonym snareWord Originearly 16th cent. (denoting a net into which a hunted animal is driven): plural of toil, from Old French toile ‘net, trap’, from Latin tela ‘web’.