toil

[US]/tɔɪl/
[UK]/tɔɪl/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. hard work; labor; trap; snare
vi. work hard; progress with difficulty
vt. work hard at; exhaust with labor

Phrases & Collocations

sweat and toil

Example Sentences

The book is a toil to read.

caught in the toils of despair.

she began to toil up the cliff path.

toiling over the mountains.

A life of toil is generally the price of fame and success.

They spent months of toil on the water conservancy project.

toiled away at the project for more than a year.

The workers toiled all through the night.

The wealth comes from the toil of the masses.

Says the soul of the toiler to itself, “I shall soon be free.

Henry had become caught in the toils of his own deviousness.

It has been an apothegm these five thousand years, that toil sweetens the bread it earns.

Here I am, toiling and moiling from morning till night for a few pennies.

But suppose in spring the farmer had left the toil unturned,the seed unsown,the trees untrimmed,and everything neglected,what would now be the result?

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