Synonyms for TOIL
tɔɪltoil

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:3.7 / 3 votes

1. toil

   Work is the generic term for any continuous application of energy toward an end; work may be hard or easy. Labor is hard and wearying work; toil is straining and exhausting work. Work is also used for any result of working, physical or mental, and has special senses, as in mechanics, which labor and toil do not share. Drudgery is plodding, irksome, and often menial work. Compare ACT; BUSINESS.

   Synonyms:
   achievement, action, business, deed, doing, drudgery, employment, exertion, labor, occupation, performance, product, production, work

   Antonyms:
   ease, idleness, leisure, recreation, relaxation, repose, rest, vacation

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1. toilnoun

   Synonyms:
   labor, pain, fatigue, drudgery, work, exertion, task, travail

   Antonyms:
   ease, relaxation, rest, recreation, amusement, pleasure

2. toilverb

   Synonyms:
   labor, work, drudge, strive

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1. labor, labour, toilverb

   productive work (especially physical work done for wages)

   "his labor did not require a great deal of skill"

   Synonyms:
   labour, labor movement, confinement, parturiency, working class, undertaking, labor, trade union movement, childbed, task, toil, proletariat, travail, lying-in, project

2. labor, labour, toil, fag, travail, grind, drudge, dig, moilverb

   work hard

   "She was digging away at her math homework"; "Lexicographers drudge all day long"

   Synonyms:
   compass, comminute, tug, boil, roil, toil, grind, dig, craunch, drudge, moil, dig up, tire, wear out, poke, cut into, crunch, churn, cranch, jab, grasp, weary, prod, jade, tire out, wear upon, fatigue, travail, delve, get the picture, drive, hollow, stab, apprehend, outwear, comprehend, turn over, excavate, labor, mash, wear down, savvy, push, grok, wear, bray, dig out, grate, fag out, labour

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1. toilverb

   Synonyms:
   labor (hard), work, strive, drudge, moil, exert one's self, take pains

2. toilnoun

   Synonyms:
   labor (that fatigues), work, exertion, pains, effort, drudgery, hard work

3. toilnoun

   Synonyms:
   snare, net, trap

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1. toilnoun

   Synonyms:
   labor, drudgery, toils, snare, trap

2. toilverb

   Synonyms:
   labor, moil, drudge

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1. List of paraphrases for "toil":

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1. Victor Hugo:

   One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil. To think is to do.

2. William Shakespeare:

   Double, double toil and trouble Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.

3. Emily Dickinson:

   Luck is not chance, it is toil. Fortune is expensive smile is earned.

4. Dwight D. Eisenhower:

   We merely want to live in peace with all the world, to trade with them, to commune with them, to learn from their culture as they may learn from ours, so that the products of our toil may be used for our schools and our roads and our churches and not for guns and planes and tanks and ships of war.

5. Epictetus:

   Difficulties show men what they are. In case of any difficulty remember that God has pitted you against a rough antagonist that you may be a conqueror, and this cannot be without toil.