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tɔɪltoil
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
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, workAntonyms:
ease, idleness, leisure, recreation, relaxation, repose, rest, vacation
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Princeton's WordNet
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, proletariat, travail, lying-in, projectlabor, 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, 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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Words popularity by usage frequency
| ranking | word | |
|---|---|---|
| #71 | business | |
| #125 | work | |
| #135 | product | |
| #288 | project | |
| #473 | action | |
| #557 | performance | |
| #737 | drive | |
| #884 | production | |
| #997 | doing | |
| #1024 | employment | |
| #1938 | pain | |
| #2035 | task | |
| #2137 | labor | |
| #2664 | wear | |
| #3526 | labour | |
| #3587 | push | |
| #4578 | occupation | |
| #5127 | achievement | |
| #6587 | tire | |
| #7788 | dig | |
| #9566 | hollow | |
| #9715 | jade | |
| #10055 | fatigue | |
| #10647 | compass | |
| #11236 | undertaking | |
| #11252 | deed | |
| #11336 | strive | |
| #12576 | prod | |
| #13142 | grasp | |
| #13468 | savvy | |
| #15427 | grind | |
| #15633 | boil | |
| #16962 | tlc | |
| #18732 | crunch | |
| #19711 | stab | |
| #19799 | weary | |
| #19967 | confinement | |
| #20204 | mash | |
| #20230 | tug | |
| #20854 | poke | |
| #21181 | comprehend | |
| #21203 | bray | |
| #25036 | drudge | |
| #29951 | travail | |
| #31630 | jab | |
| #32581 | churn | |
| #33184 | grate | |
| #34141 | delve | |
| #35150 | toil | |
| #38020 | exertion | |
| #44228 | proletariat | |
| #53441 | apprehend | |
| #64307 | grok | |
| #72666 | drudgery | |
| #76481 | excavate | |
| #159353 | cranch | |
| #162209 | outwear | |
| #176771 | roil | |
| #239454 | moil |
How to use toil in a sentence?
Labour like a man, and be ready in doing kindnesses. He is a good-for-nothing fellow who eateth by the toil of another?s hand.
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.
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.
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.
Translations for toil
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- تعب, كدح, كدArabic
- treballCatalan, Valencian
- dřít, dřinaCzech
- sich plagen, schuften, sich quälenGerman
- κόπος, μόχθοςGreek
- vastukset, ahkerointi, rehkiä, raataa, vaiva, uurastusFinnish
- travaillerFrench
- laboregarIdo
- litigio, diverbio, tenzone, fatica, lavoro, disputa, baruffaItalian
- whakarīrāMāori
- gezwoeg, labeuren, werkenDutch
- трудиться, труд, работаRussian
- rabotaSerbo-Croatian
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