toil
toil Lexical Profile
toil Game Scores & Validity
• noun
Exhausting physical labor or prolonged, strenuous effort.
"After years of arduous toil in the fields, the farmers finally purchased their own land."
A net, snare, or series of traps used to catch game or ensnare someone (usually used in the plural).
"The ambitious politician soon found himself caught in the toils of his own elaborate deception."
• verb
To work extremely hard or incessantly at a demanding task.
"Generations of miners toiled underground in hazardous conditions to extract coal."
To move slowly and with great difficulty or exhaustion.
"The hikers toiled up the steep, rocky slope with heavy packs on their backs."
• Rhymes for toil
Word Origin & Etymology
Middle English, from Anglo-Norman French 'toil' (turmoil, dispute) and 'toiler' (to agitate, entangle), ultimately from Latin 'tudiculare', meaning to stir or crush (originally in reference to olives), from 'tudicula', a machine for bruising olives.