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toil
1/ tɔɪl /
noun
- often plural a net or snare
the toils of fortune had ensnared him
- archaic.a trap for wild beasts
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Derived Forms
- ˈtoiler, noun
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Other Words From
- toiler noun
- un·toiling adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of toil1
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Example Sentences
What does man gain by all the toil at which he toils under the sun?
In the years 1914-18, women flooded into the workplace to take on the toil of men conscripted to fight.
But football is a game in which a moment of magic can undo an hour of toil.
These early British settlers soon established tobacco then sugar cane plantations and started importing workers to toil on them.
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.
He was rejoicing in the upheaval that permitted debts to be paid with a bludgeon and money to be made without toil.
Not too big for the fiery old heart that trouble and toil and hunger and loneliness had never quenched.
He was now evidently exhausted by toil, and dispirited by disappointment.
Thus it lightens the toil of the weary laborer plodding along the highway of life.
The comfortable yet humble apartments of the engraver were over the shop where he plied his daily toil.
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