Meaning

Labour, work, especially of a grueling nature..

Definitions by Sense

1. Labour, work, especially of a grueling nature.
2. Trouble, strife.
3. (usually in the plural) A net or snare; any thread, web, or string spread for taking prey.
4. (intransitive) To labour; work.
5. (intransitive) To struggle.
6. (transitive) To work (something); often with out.
7. (transitive) To weary through excessive labour.

Example Sentences

[…] he set to work again and made the snow fly in all directions around him. After some further toil his efforts were rewarded, and a very shabby door-mat lay exposed to view.

Then toils for beasts, and lime for birds, were found.

I was like a wild beast that had broken the toils, destroying the objects that obstructed me and ranging through the wood with a stag-like swiftness.

That I was going to sit still, and let you sulk, while mademoiselle walked blindfold into the toils?

She had waited overlong, and now it was like that Ailie would escape her toils.

places well toiled and husbanded

[I] toiled out my uncouth passage.

toiled with works of war

Word Forms

• toils
• toyle
• toiling
• toiled

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Use toil when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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