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moil — v. & n. archaic v.intr. drudge (esp. toil and moil). n. drudgery. Etymology: ME f. OF moillier moisten, paddle in mud, ult. f. L mollis soft … Useful english dictionary
Moil — Moil, v. i. [From {Moil} to daub; prob. from the idea of struggling through the wet.] To soil one s self with severe labor; to work with painful effort; to labor; to toil; to drudge. [1913 Webster] Moil not too much under ground. Bacon. [1913… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
toil — 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… … Thesaurus of popular words
toil — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. labor, drudgery; task, work; effort, exhaustion. v. work, drudge, moil, labor; strive. See exertion. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. labor, occupation, drudgery; see work 2 . v. Syn. sweat, labor, slave; see… … English dictionary for students
toil — toil1 toiler, n. /toyl/, n. 1. hard and continuous work; exhausting labor or effort. 2. a laborious task. 3. Archaic. battle; strife; struggle. v.i. 4. to engage in hard and continuous work; labor arduously: to toil in the fields. 5. to move or… … Universalium
toil — I n 1. labor, travail, sweat of one s brow, Inf. elbow grease; moil, drudgery, grind, menial work; hard work, hard labor, slavery; exertion, effort, strain, struggle, laboriousness, plodding, Inf. plugging, pegging; industry, industriousness,… … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
moil — (Roget s Thesaurus II) I verb To exert one s mental or physical powers, usually under difficulty and to the point of exhaustion: drive, fag, labor, strain1, strive, sweat, toil, travail, tug, work. Idiom: break one s back (or neck). See WORK. II… … English dictionary for students
moil — v 1. drudge, work hard, toil, labor, Brit. fag; slave, plod, grub, Inf. plug or plug along, Inf. grind, wade through; exert oneself, tax one s energies; keep one s nose to the grindstone, work in a sweatshop, work in the salt mines, work like a… … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
moil — Synonyms and related words: agitation, be turbulent, bluster, bobbery, boil, boiling, brouhaha, bubble, bustle, churn, clamor, commotion, conturbation, dig, dirty work, discomposure, disorder, disquiet, disquietude, disturbance, donkeywork, drive … Moby Thesaurus
toil — Synonyms and related words: 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 … Moby Thesaurus
