toil
Labour, work, especially of a grueling natureLabour, work, especially of a grueling nature.
» I've been toiling away in the kitchen all afternoon.
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3 senses(countable, uncountable)Labour, work, especially of a grueling nature.
Mühe
трудtrud, рабо́таrabóta
(countable, uncountable)Trouble, strife.
беда́bedá, го́реgóre
(countable, usually plural, uncountable)A net or snare; any thread, web, or string spread for taking prey.
- productive work (especially physical work done for wages)
Examples
24 sentencesI've been toiling away in the kitchen all afternoon.
The employees share the burden of toil.
All the trainees share the burden of toil.
For toil alone the gods sell all good things.
They've been toiling for fifteen hours without a break.
deSie schuften 15 Stunden ohne Unterbrechung. — manese
Translations
7 languagesBy meaning 2
By meaning 1
Origin
From Middle English toilen, toylen, apparently a conflation of Anglo-Norman toiller (“to aFrom 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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Forms
plural: toilsSynonyms
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5 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable