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    toil
    [toil]
    verb
    toil (verb) · toils (third person present) · toiled (past tense) · toiled (past participle) · toiling (present participle)
    1. work extremely hard or incessantly:
      "we toiled away" · "Richard toiled to build his editorial team"
      • move slowly and with difficulty:
        "she began to toil up the cliff path"
    noun
    toil (noun) · toils (plural noun)
    1. exhausting physical labor:
      "a life of toil"
    Origin
    Middle English (in the senses ‘contend verbally’ and ‘strife’): from Anglo-Norman French toiler ‘strive, dispute’, toil ‘confusion’, from Latin tudiculare ‘stir about’, from tudicula ‘machine for crushing olives’, related to tundere ‘crush’.
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    verb
    1. work extremely hard or incessantly:
      labor
      work one's fingers to the bone
      work like a Trojan
      keep one's nose to the grindstone
      grind away
      peg away
      plug away
      sweat blood
      fag
      bullock
      drudge
      travail
      moil
      work hard
      work like a dog
      work day and night
      exert oneself
      keep at it
      slave away
      grub away
      plow away
      plod away
      slog away
      beaver away
      put one's back into something
      work one's guts out
      work one's socks off
      knock oneself out
      kill oneself
      graft away
      work one's balls/arse/nuts off
      work one's ass/butt off
      Opposite:
      rest
      relax
      laze
    noun
    1. exhausting physical labor:
      hard work
      toiling
      labor
      slaving
      struggle
      effort
      exertion
      application
      industry
      grind
      slog
      blood, sweat, and tears
      drudgery
      sweat
      elbow grease
      graft
      travail
      moil
      (hard) yakka
     
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    What does toil mean in English?
    Although toil means "work" (in both its noun and verb forms), it usually has the added meaning of hard work, especially physical labor. If you'd lived during the Great Depression, you might have toiled on roadwork and conservation projects. Your toils would have created roads in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, for example.

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    What does toil away mean?
    Toil away means the same as toil. She has toiled away at the violin for years. [V P + at/on] Nora toils away serving burgers at the local cafe. [VERB PARTICLE] If you toil somewhere, you move there slowly and with difficulty, usually because you are very tired. Arnold had his head down, gasping as he toiled up the hill. [VERB preposition/adverb]

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    What does toil up a mountain mean?
    To toil up a mountain. (intransitive) To struggle. To weary through excessive labour. Contention; struggle; strife. Hard, exhausting work or effort; tiring labor. A task performed by such effort. Something that binds, snares, or entangles one; an entrapment. Caught in the toils of despair. A net for trapping.

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    What does it mean when a person Toiles away?
    When people toil, they work very hard doing unpleasant or tiring tasks. People who toiled in dim, dank factories were too exhausted to enjoy their family life. [VERB] Workers toiled long hours. [VERB noun] Toil away means the same as toil. She has toiled away at the violin for years. [V P + at/on] Nora toils away serving burgers at the local cafe.

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    What is the difference between toil and snare?
    toil2 (toil), n. Usually, toils. a net or series of nets in which game known to be in the area is trapped or into which game outside of the area is driven. snare: to be caught in the toils of a gigantic criminal conspiracy. [Archaic.]any snare or trap for wild beasts. Synonyms: work, hard work, labor, labour, sweat, more...

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    What is the difference between toils and archaic?
    Usually toils. a net or series of nets in which game known to be in the area is trapped or into which game outside of the area is driven. to be caught in the toils of a gigantic criminal conspiracy. Archaic. any snare or trap for wild beasts. archaic.

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    Toil means to work hard and continuously, or to struggle. It can also be a noun for hard work, a task, or a trap. See synonyms, antonyms, sentences, and origin of toil.

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