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IELTS BNC: 14924 COCA: 13009

toil

2 ENTRIES FOUND:
1 toil /ˈtojəl/ noun
1 toil
/ˈtojəl/
noun
Learner's definition of TOIL
[noncount] formal + literary
: work that is difficult and unpleasant and that lasts for a long time : long, hard labor苦活;劳累的工作
2 toil /ˈtojəl/ verb
toils; toiled; toiling
2 toil
/ˈtojəl/
verb
toils; toiled; toiling
Learner's definition of TOIL
[no object] formal + literary
: to work very hard for a long time(长时间地)苦干,辛勤劳作
: to move slowly and with a lot of effort艰难地走动;跋涉

— toiler

/ˈtoɪlɚ/ noun, plural toilers [count]
IELTS BNC: 14924 COCA: 13009

toil

1 of 3

noun (1)

1
: long strenuous fatiguing labor
2
archaic
b
: laborious effort
toilful adjective
toilfully adverb

toil

2 of 3

verb

toiled; toiling; toils

intransitive verb

1
: to work hard and long
2
: to proceed with laborious effort : plod

transitive verb

1
archaic : overwork
2
archaic : to get or accomplish with great effort
toiler noun

toil

3 of 3

noun (2)

1
: a net to trap game
2
: something by which one is held fast or inextricably involved : snare, trap
usually used in plural
caught in the toils of the law
Choose the Right Synonym for toil

work, labor, travail, toil, drudgery, grind mean activity involving effort or exertion.

work may imply activity of body, of mind, of a machine, or of a natural force.

too tired to do any work

labor applies to physical or intellectual work involving great and often strenuous exertion.

farmers demanding fair compensation for their labor

travail is bookish for labor involving pain or suffering.

years of travail were lost when the house burned

toil implies prolonged and fatiguing labor.

his lot would be years of back-breaking toil

drudgery suggests dull and irksome labor.

an editorial job with a good deal of drudgery

grind implies labor exhausting to mind or body.

the grind of the assembly line

Example Sentences

Verb workers toiling in the fields They were toiling up a steep hill.

Word History

Etymology

Noun (1)

Middle English toile, from Anglo-French toyl, from toiller

Verb

Middle English, to argue, struggle, from Anglo-French toiller to make dirty, fight, wrangle, from Latin tudiculare to crush, grind, from tudicula machine for crushing olives, diminutive of tudes hammer; akin to Latin tundere to beat — more at contusion

Noun (2)

Middle French toile cloth, net, from Old French teile, Latin tela cloth on a loom — more at subtle

First Known Use

Noun (1)

14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2

Verb

15th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1

Noun (2)

circa 1529, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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The first known use of toil was in the 14th century
IELTS BNC: 14924 COCA: 13009
toil

noun

ADJECTIVE | PHRASES ADJECTIVEback-breaking, grinding, hard (especially BrE) 繁重的勞動;辛苦的工作ceaseless, endless, unceasing不停的/無盡的/沒完沒了的勞作daily每天的辛苦勞作physical辛苦的體力活兒honest踏實的辛苦工作PHRASEShours, years, etc. of toil數小時、長年等的辛苦勞作a lifetime of physical toil一輩子辛苦勞作sweat and toil辛苦勞作a day of sweat and toil一天的辛苦勞作

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