Meaning of toil in English

1. Pronunciation

   /tɔɪl/

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1. Verb

   toil

   Etymology

   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’

   Definitions

   1. work hard

   Examples

   • « She was digging away at her math homework »
   • « Lexicographers drudge all day long »

2. Noun

   toil

   Definitions

   1. productive work (especially physical work done for wages)

   Examples

   • « his labor did not require a great deal of skill »