B2verb · transitive · rare

toil

toil · toils · toiled · toiling

трудитися

трудиться

sich quälen, sich plagen, schuften

To labour; workTo labour; work.

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/tɔɪl/

» I've been toiling away in the kitchen all afternoon.

Meaning

4 senses

(intransitive)To labour; work.
schuften, sich plagen, sich quälen
труди́тьсяtrudítʹsja, вка́лыватьvkályvatʹ
труди́тисяtrudýtysja
work hard
(intransitive)To struggle.
(transitive)To work (something); often with out.
(transitive)To weary through excessive labour.

Examples

24 sentences

I've been toiling away in the kitchen all afternoon.
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The employees share the burden of toil.
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All the trainees share the burden of toil.
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For toil alone the gods sell all good things.
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They've been toiling for fifteen hours without a break.
deSie schuften 15 Stunden ohne Unterbrechung.
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Translations

8 languages

Українська

By meaning 1

to labour, to work:

Русский

By meaning 1

to labour, to work:

Deutsch

By meaning 1

to labour, to work:

Origin

From Middle English toilen, toylen, apparently a conflation of Anglo-Norman toiller (“to a

From Middle English toilen, toylen, apparently a conflation of Anglo-Norman toiller (“to agitate, stir up, entangle”) (compare Old Northern French tooillier, tooullier (“to agitate, stir”); of unknown origin), and Middle English tilyen, telien, teolien, tolen, tolien, tulien (“to till, work, labour”), from Old English tilian, telian, teolian, tiolian (“to exert oneself, toil, work, make, generate, strive after, try, endeavor, procure, obtain, gain, provide, tend, cherish, cultivate, till, plough, trade, traffic, aim at, aspire to, treat, cure”) (compare Middle Dutch tuylen, teulen (“to till, work, labour”)), from Proto-Germanic *tilōną (“to strive, reach for, aim for, hurry”). Cognate with Scots tulyie (“to quarrel, flite, contend”).

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