toil
toiled; toils; toiling
Toil is another word for work. You toil as a customer service rep all day, but you'd prefer to work as a rock goddess. Unfortunately, there weren't many ads in the employment section for goddesses — rock or otherwise.
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. Thanks for all your hard work! Now, relax and enjoy the scenery.
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work hard
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productive work (especially physical work done for wages)
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roping
capturing cattle or horses with a lasso
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corvee
unpaid labor (as for the maintenance of roads) required by a lord of his vassals in lieu of taxes
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donkeywork, drudgery, grind, plodding
hard monotonous routine work
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effort, elbow grease, exertion, sweat, travail
use of physical or mental energy; hard work
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hunt, hunting
the work of finding and killing or capturing animals for food or pelts
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hackwork
professional work done according to formula
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haymaking
cutting grass and curing it to make hay
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manual labor, manual labour
labor done with the hands
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overwork, overworking
the act of working too much or too long
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slavery
work done under harsh conditions for little or no pay
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calf roping
capturing a calf with a lasso and binding its feet
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steer roping
capturing a steer with a lasso
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canned hunt
a hunt for animals that have been raised on game ranches until they are mature enough to be killed for trophy collections
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struggle
strenuous effort
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difficulty, trouble
an effort that is inconvenient
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least effort, least resistance
the least effortful way to do something
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strain, straining
an intense or violent exertion
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exercise, exercising, physical exercise, physical exertion, workout
the activity of exerting your muscles in various ways to keep fit
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pull
a sustained effort
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application, diligence
a diligent effort
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overkill
any effort that seems to go farther than would be necessary to achieve its goal
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supererogation
an effort above and beyond the call of duty
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overexertion
excessive exertion; so much exertion that discomfort or injury results
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stalk, stalking, still hunt
a hunt for game carried on by following it stealthily or waiting in ambush
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birdnesting
hunting for birds' nests to get the eggs
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predation
the act of preying by a predator who kills and eats the prey
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detrition, friction, rubbing
effort expended in moving one object over another with pressure
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application, coating, covering
the work of applying something
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bodywork
the work of making or repairing vehicle bodies
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handling
manual (or mechanical) carrying or moving or delivering or working with something
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picking
the act of picking (crops or fruit or hops etc.)
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planking
the work of covering an area with planks
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wiring
the work of installing the wires for an electrical system or device
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work
activity directed toward making or doing something
Vocabulary lists containing toil
This biography chronicles the life of Sojourner Truth, a woman who was born a slave, and who became the embodiment of the universal ideals of abolition and equality.
In this second book of the series The Trials of Apollo, Lester must reclaim and protect five Oracles from three evil emperors with help from the demigod Leo Valdez, bronze dragon Festus, and sorceress Calypso.
Eleven-year-old Nhamo flees from her abusive aunt's home in Mozambique and embarks on a dangerous journey to find her father in Zimbabwe.
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