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Verb: toil  toyl
  1. Work hard
    "Lexicographers toil all day long";
    - labor [US], labour [Brit, Cdn], fag [informal], travail [literary], grind [informal], drudge, dig [US, informal], moil [N. Amer]
Noun: toil  toyl
  1. Productive work (especially physical work done for wages)
    "his toil did not require a great deal of skill";
    - labor [US], labour [Brit, Cdn]

Derived forms: toiled, toiling, toils

Type of: do work, work

Encyclopedia: Toil