Toil

Definition: Toil

Toil

Noun

1. Productive work (especially physical work done for wages); "his labor did not require a great deal of skill".

Verb

1. Work hard; "She was digging away at her math homework"; "Lexicographers drudge all day long".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "toil" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Synonyms: Toil

Activity

Outdo; overdo, overact, overlay, overshoot the mark; make a toil of a pleasure.

Exertion

Labor, work, toil, travail, manual labor, sweat of one's brow, swink, drudgery, slavery, fagging, hammering; limae labor; industry, industriousness, operoseness, operosity.

Labor, work, toil, moil, sweat, fag, drudge, slave, drag a lengthened chain, wade through, strive, stretch a long arm; pull, tug, ply; ply the oar, tug at the oar; do the work; take the laboring oar

A strong pull a long pull and a pull all together; dead lift; heft; gymnastics; exercise, exercitation; wear and tear; ado; toil and trouble; uphill work, hard work, warm work; harvest time.

Failure

Verb: fail; be unsuccessful; Adjective: not succeed; make vain efforts;Noun: do in vain, labor in vain, toil in vain; flunk; lose one's labor, take nothing by one's motion; bring to naught, make nothing of; wash a blackamoor white; (impossible); roll the stones of Sisyphus; (useless); do by halves; (not complete); lose ground; (recede); fall short of.

Thought

Phrase: the mind being on the stretch; the mind turning upon, the head turning upon, the mind running upon; " divinely, bent to meditation "; en toute chose il faut considerer la fin; " fresh-pluckt from bowers of never-failing thought "; " go speed the stars of Thought "; " in maiden meditation fancy-free "; " so sweet is zealous contemplation "; " the power of thought is the magic of the Mind "; " those that think must govern those that toil "; " thought is parent of the deed "; " thoughts in attitudes imperious "; " thoughts that breathe and words that burn "; vivere est cogitare; Volk der Dichter und Denker.

Crosswords: Toil

Irish (will), Scottish (desire, inclination, the will, will).

In it I toil not, neither do I spin. (All About Eve; writing credit: Joseph L. Mankiewicz)

Double, double toil and trouble; fire burn and cauldron bubble. (Macbeth; writing credit: Roman Polanski; William Shakespeare)

Leave it to Andy to have the wisdom and sensitivity into the hours and hours of toil and labor that went into the Indian product, and they've been so lucky to cash in on this whole Santa Fe thing happening. (Without You I'm Nothing; writing credit: Sandra Bernhard; John Boskovich)

For Whom the Bulls Toil (1953)

Toil and Tyranny (1915)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• A Documentary History of the Communist Party of the United States: Toil and Trouble, 1928-1933 (reference)

• China at Work: An Illustrated Record of the Primitive Industries of China's Masses, Whose Life Is Toil, and Thus an Account of Chinese Civilization, (reference)

• Toil, Turmoil, and Triumph: A Portrait of the Tennessee Labor Movement (reference)

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Theater & Movies

• The Worst Witch - Double Double Toil and Trouble (reference)

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Double, double, toil and trouble --. Credit: Library of Congress.

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It is labour then which puts the greatest part of value upon land, without which it would scarcely be worth any thing: it is to that we owe the greatest part of all its useful products; for all that the straw, bran, bread, of that acre of wheat, is more worth than the product of an acre of as good land, which lies waste, is all the effect of labour: for it is not barely the plough-man's pains, the reaper's and thresher's toil, and the baker's sweat, is to be counted into the bread we eat; the labour of those who broke the oxen, who digged and wrought the iron and stones, who felled and framed the timber employed about the plough, mill, oven, or any other utensils, which are a vast number, requisite to this corn, from its being feed to be sown to its being made bread, must all be charged on the account of labour, and received as an effect of that: nature and the earth furnished only the almost worthless materials, as in themselves. (Second Treatise of Government)

Nay more, in proportion as the use of machinery and division of labour increases, in the same proportion the burden of toil also increases, whether by prolongation of the working hours, by increase of the work exacted in a given time or by increased speed of the machinery, etc. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Methinks it matters little when we reached that summit, the crown of our toil.

At the instant, I was only conscious that what would have been a pleasure once was now a hopeless toil.

Folded arms work, closed hands perform, a gaze fixed on heaven is a toil.

And all to leave what with his toil he won To that unfeather'd two-legged thing, a son.

Their fingers, from excessive toil, are too clumsy and tremble too much for that.

Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "toil": make a toil of a pleasure ♦ sweeten toil ♦ toil and moil ♦ toil at smth. ♦ toil for a living ♦ toil in the work ♦ toil network ♦ toil on smth.. Additional references.

Beginning with "toil": toil-baked, toil-hardened, toil-worn.

Albanian

rraskapitem (burn out, overstrain, poop), punoj rëndë (slog), punë e rëndë (drudgery, elbow grease, moil, slavery, slog, swot, travail), mundohem (agonize, endeavor, endeavour, fag, labor, labour, plod, sweat, try). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كدح (drudge, drudgery, elbow grease, fag, grub, hard work, labor, labour, moil, plod, proletarianize, slave, slavery, slog, sweat, sweat blood, swot, travail, work hard), ‏كد (diligence, drudgery, exert oneself, exhaust, fatigue, industry, overwork, sedulity, work hard), ‏نصب كد أو عناء (fatigue), ‏تعب (failure, fatigue, go flat out, grow tired, languishment, languor, lassitude, pan, punish, stress, take trouble, tell on, tire, tiredness, try, tucker, weariness, weary), ‏شبكة (connection, connexion, drag, fillet, grid, net, network, web). (various references)

Bulgarian 

трудя се (fag, labor, labour, plod), трепане, тежка работа (donkey work, elbow grease, fag, grind, job, labor, labour, moil, murder, plod, slavery, task-work, warm work), вървя с мъка, влача се (crawl, linger, lollop, lounge about, plod, roll, shamble, shuffle, slouch, trapes, trapse, wear away), мъча се (agonize, labor, labour, seek, suffer, try, tug, writhe), мъка (ado, affliction, agony, desolation, excruciation, grief, heartache, laceration, misery, moil, pain, suffering, torment, torture). (various references)

Chinese 

劳碌 (Toiled), 勞累 , 勞 , 勩 . (various references)

Czech

plahoèit se (plod, trudge), namáhavá práce, lopotit se (plod), lopota (drudgery), dřina (drudgery, elbow grease, fag, grind, grindery, labor, labour, moil, slog, stinker, sweat). (various references)

Danish

fjerndatanet (has a transmission speed of 50 kb/s and a high error rate, long distance network, long haul network, toil network, wide area network). (various references)

Dutch

wijd lokaal netwerk (has a transmission speed of 50 kb/s and a high error rate, long distance network, long haul network, toil network, wide area network), wide area netwerk (has a transmission speed of 50 kb/s and a high error rate, long distance network, long haul network, toil network, wide area network), WAN (electric fan, ventilator). (various references)

Farsi 

پیکار (Battle, Combat), محنت (Bale, Distress, Hardship, Pain, Tribulation), محصول رنج , مجادله (Contention, Tussle), کارپرزحمت (Treadmill), کشمکش (Bout, Conflict, Scrimmage, Scuffle, Skirmish, Struggle, Tussle, Wrestle), توریاتله , ستیز (Battle, Combat, Struggle, Warfare), زحمت کشیدن (Labor, Muck, Plod), رنج بردن (Rack, Suffer, Travail), رنج (Agony, Bale, Discomfort, Labor, Pain, Throe, Trial, Tribulation), دام (Ambush, Decoy, Grin, Net, Noose, Pitfall, Quicksand, Snare, Trap), بحث وجدل (Disputation, Polemic). (various references)

Finnish

uurastus (hard work), uurastaa (be busy, work hard), raataa (drudge, grind away, slave away), ahertaa (hammer away, work hard), aherrus (bustle, striving). (various references)

French

travailler dur (go to town), souffrir, labeur, faire peiner, dur travail. (various references)

German

sich schleppen (drag on, drag oneself, haul oneself, lumber, trudge), sich plagen, sich abplagen (plod, slave, slave away, struggle, struggle away), sich abmühen (aim, attempt, bother, endeavour, labor, labour, plod, slave away, strain, struggle, struggle away, try), plage (bother, curse, devil, harassment, infliction, menace, nuisance, pest, plague, scourge, trouble, vexation, worriment), mühselige arbeit, mühsal (attempt, effort, hardship, tribulation), mühe (attempt, bother, care, effort, hassle, labor, labour, pain, trouble), arbeiten (be at work, be busy, fashion, ferment, function, have a job, jobs, labor, labour, labours, make, operate, sculpture, study, to act, to work, work, working, workings, works). (various references)

Greek 

κόποσ (fatigue, labor, labour, moil), κοιτάζω (glower at, look, look at), μόχθοσ (labor, labour), μοχθώ (fag, plod), πασχίζω (endeavor, endeavour, strive, try hard). (various references)

Hebrew 

י�'יע�" (effort, exertion, labour, strain), לעמול (labor, labour, make effort, moil, slog, take pains, travail, work), לעבו�" (labor, labour, serve, till, work), לטרוח (moil, take trouble, trouble), עמל (exertion, labor, labour, moil), עבו�"�" (creation, labor, labour, service, work), עצב (dolour, grief, melancholy, pain, sadness, sadness pain, sorrow). (various references)

Hungarian

küszködik (have difficulty in, to flounce, to flounder, to grapple, to labour for bare subsistence, to plod away), halászháló (fishnet), erõfeszítés (dint, effort, exertion). (various references)

Indonesian

kerja keras. (various references)

Italian

lavorare sodo, faticare (have difficulty, labor, labour, slog, tire, work hard), fatica (difficulty, effort, endeavour, exertion, fag, fatigue, labor, labour, pain, strain, trouble), duro lavoro, arrancare (hobble, plod, trudge). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

辛苦 (hardship, trouble). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

し�"ろう (anxiety, bridegroom, fear, hardships, trouble, worry), し�"く (crimson, deep crimson, hardship, scarlet, trouble), ろうさく (labor, laborious task), ろうどう (followers, manual labor, retainers, vassals, work), ろうりょく (effort, labour, trouble), ろうえき (labor, work), ろうく (aged body, hardship, labor, one's old bones), ろう (age, belvedere, bend over, comforting, labor, lookout, old age, old people, puttingto work, striving, thanking, the aged, the old, tower, trouble, turret, wax). (various references)

Korean 

수� (toiling). (various references)

Manx

tooilleil (donkey-work, drudge, drudgery, fatigue, laboriousness, labour, tire, tiresomeness, travail, weary; wearying; elbow grease), obbraghey dy jeean (graft), laboraght (labour, work). (various references)

Pig Latin

oiltay

Portuguese

trabalho pesado, trabalhar duro (drudge), trabalhar duramente (slog), rede (griddle, lace, mesh, net, netting, network, snood, television network, toils, tv network), mover-se penosamente, mourejar (moire, plodder, plug, slog, stew), lidar (coping, fight, get along, labor, labour, struggle), labutar (labor, labour, moiety, moil, plod, plug, scrub, stew, travail, tug), labuta (drug), fadiga (difficulty, fatigue, hardship, weariness, weight, work, works), armadilha (booby trap, decoy, decoy duck, gin, mantrap, mesh, noose, pitfall, pothole, snare, toils, trap). (various references)

Romanian

trudi (drudge, fag, grind, labor, labour, moil, sweat, torture, weary), trudã (drudgery, elbow grease, grub, labor, labour, moil, suffering, sufferings, sweat, tiredness, trouble, work), se târî (crawl, creep, drag, grovel, jog along, jog on, plod, slither, trail), robotit, roboti (drudge), osteni (fatigue, tire, weary), munci (do, endeavor, endeavour, labor, labour, rack, suffer, till, torment, torture, work), muncã grea (elbow grease, fag, moil, penance), mreajã (toils), merge cu greu (plough under, trudge), lucra (bungle, cultivate, do, farm, function, labor, labour, operate, run, till, work), cursã (ambush, chase, course, decoy, drive, errand, gin, journey, pit, pitfall, race, races, ride, riding, run, running, snare, springe, stroke, take in, the dogs, trap), capcanã (catcher, death trap, decoy, gin, hook, net, noose, pit fall, pitfall, snare, trap, wait), canoni (tire, torment, torture, weary), asuda (grind, reek, steam, sweat, swelter, transpire). (various references)

Russian 

тяжелый труд (hard labor, slavery, travail), трудиться (fag, labor, labour, work), потрудиться (labor, labour). (various references)

Scottish

saothraich (bestow pains, work), saothair (chore, job, labour, pains, work). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

težak rad (corvee, elbow grease, fatigue duty, fatigues, hard labor, hard labour, labor intensive, labour intensive, labouring, slog), teško raditi (slog), vući (drag, draw, haul, lug, pull, shuffle, tow, trail, tug, yank), robijati (serve a sentence), rintati, porađanje (giving birth). (various references)

Spanish

trabajo (assignment, chore, craft, diploma, discourse, dissertation, elaboration, employ, enterprise, job, labor, labour, lieu, occupation, ploy, task, work), trabajar (act, fetter, job, labor, labour, play, work), marchar (act, come by, come in for, come off, direct, go, go away, go off, kick around, leg, let, let off, level, live, March, move, sail, tick away, tick by, toddle, track, tramp, travel, trip, troop, trot, tumble over, turn about, walk, work), laborar (hew, labor, labour, work), labor (labor, labour, task, work), fatigarse (tire, weary), fatiga (fatigue, harassment, labor, labour), esfuerzo (attempt, brunt, courage, effort, endeavor, endeavour, exertion, labor, labour, pull, spirit, strain, stress, stretch, struggle, tax, trouble, vigor, vigour), currelar (hustle), caminar (distance, go, hie, hiking, home in on, run, running, sashay, trail, travel, tread, tread down, trot, tumble over, walk, wend one's way), avanzar (advance, come forward, come on, develop, encroach, forward, go forward, go off, go on, lumber, lurch along, move, move along, move in, proceed, push forward, push on, thrust forward, track, trundle on), apurarse (fret, hurry, hurry up, take on, upset, worry), afanarse (drudge, slog, strive, travail), afán (attempt, eagerness, effort, efforts, hard work, industry, tension). (various references)

Swedish

träla (slave, work hard), slita (break adrift, drudge, fag, get loose, labor, labour, pull, tear, travail, tug, wear, wrest, yank), slit (drudgery, fag, grind, scramble, slog, wear and tear), släpa (cart, drag, drudge, scuff, scuffle, sledge, snake, tow, trail), plit, hårt arbete (go, job, taskwork), gno (bustle about, rub, run, work hard), arbeta (labor, labour, ship off, work). (various references)

Turkish

tuzak (a warm corner, ambuscade, ambush, catch, cobweb, come on, complot, decoy, gin, hook, lure, net, noose, snare, springe, toilets, toils, trap, wire), zahmet çekmek (be at pains, take pains, toil and moil, travail), zahmet (bother, exertion, grueling, gruelling, inconvenience, onerousness, pain, pains, painstaking, punishment, struggle, travail, trouble), uğraşmak (agonize, attack, be at war with, be occupied in doing, be occupied with doing, come at, contend, cope, deal, endeavor, endeavour, engage in, exert oneself, fight, get at, go in for, grapple, groove, haze, labor, labour, make an effort, mess around with, mess with, moil, monkey around with, monkey with, pick on, push, seek, set to, strive, strive against, struggle, tackle, try hard, tug, tussle, work away, work hard, wrestle), uğraş (avocation, employment, endeavor, endeavour, engagement, exertion, occupation, profession, resource, struggle, tug, wrestle), sıkıntı (adversity, agitation, annoyance, anxiety, bore, boredom, bother, botheration, difficulty, dire straits, discomfort, distress, doldrums, draft, embarrassment, famine, fear, fret, gloom, gloominess, grayness, greyness, groan, hardship, heebie-jeebies, inconvenience, incubus, infliction, load, megrims, mopes, nuisance, oppression, pill, pip, pressure, rigor, rigour, rock, scrape, Strait, straits, stringency, tedium, the megrims, toils, tribulation, trouble, vexation, weight, willies), emek sarfetmek, emek (exertion, labor, labour, pain, pains, work), didinmek (fag, grub, moil, slave, strain, strive, toil and moil, try hard, wear oneself out). (various references)

Turkmen 

emgenmek (exert oneself, work hard). (various references)

Ukrainian

іти через силу, важка праця (swot, travail, workout), посилено працювати, досягати важкою працею. (various references)

Vietnamese 

công việc vất vả (travail), công việc khó nhọc, công việc cực nhọc (mill, slavery). (various references)

Welsh

ymlafnio (strive, struggle), llafurio (labor, till), gnif (effort). (various references)

ponein. (various references)

aerumna, aerumnae, aerumnas, aerumnis, inoperantur, labor, labor laboris, labore, laborem, labores, laboribus, laboris, laboro, laborum, molior, operabantur, operaberis, operabitur, operabor, operabuntur, operamini, operando, operandum, operans, operantem, operantes, operanti, operantibus, operantium, operantur, operare, operarentur, operaretur, operari, operaris, operata, operati, operator, operatorem, operatum, operatur, operatus, operatusque, operemini, operemur, operetur, operor, tela, tudiculare. (various references)

gedeorf. (various references)

toeillier. (various references)

toile. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "toil": toile, toiled, toiler, toilers, toiles, toilet, toileted, toileting, toiletries, toiletry, toilets, toilette, toilettes, toilful, toilfully, toiling, toils, toilsome, toilsomely, toilsomeness, toilsomenesses, toilworn. (additional references)

Words ending with "toil": entoil, overtoil. (additional references)

Words containing "toil": entoiled, entoiling, entoils, etoile, etoiles, overtoiled, overtoiling, overtoils. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Toil" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: atoil, doil, d'oil, Ntuli, otel, oti, otil, taih, talio, teli, thil, thol, tilb, tilf, tilv, tio, tiof, tiol, tiom, tion, Tiql, toal, tobi, tobil, todi, toel, Tofik, Tohil, Tohill, toib, toid, toif, toig, toim, toir, toit, toki, tokio, tolm, topl, Torill, torl, Tosio, toul, Tovil, Tovill, towl, toxil, toyi, toyl, toyo, tril, troil, troyl, tual, tuel, Tufl, tu'ii, tuik, tuil, tuila, tulio, twil, twoi, txil, zoil. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: loti.

-1 letter: lit, lot, oil, til.

-2 letters: it, li, lo, ti, to.

+1 letter: lirot, litho, lotic, pilot, teloi, thiol, toile, toils, triol, volti.

+2 letters: aliyot, boleti, citola, citole, coital, diglot, entoil, eolith, etoile, galiot, giglot, holist, iolite, latigo, latino, lictor, lintol, liroth, lithos, loiter, lotion, maloti, motile, oolite, oolith, outlie, oxtail, pilots, piolet, pistol, polite, polity, pontil, rialto, spoilt, stolid, tailor, talion, thiols, tholoi, tiglon, toiled, toiler, toiles, toilet, toling, toluic, toluid, tonsil, triols, tufoli, ultimo, violet, wittol.

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