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    [Verb]  | "toil" 


    1: to work hard and long

    2: to proceed with laborious effort : plod

    3: overwork

    Origin: 15th century ;

     Middle English, to argue, struggle, from Anglo-French toiller to make dirty, fight, wrangle, from Latin tudiculare to crush, grind, from tudicula machine for crushing olives, diminutive of tudes hammer; akin to Latin tundere to beat {mat|contusion|};

    [Noun]  | "toil" | \ ˈtȯi(-ə)l \


    1: long strenuous fatiguing labor

    2: struggle, battle

    3: laborious effort

    Origin: 14th century ;

     Middle English toile, from Anglo-French toyl, from toiller;

    [Noun]  | "toil" 


    1: a net to trap game

    2: something by which one is held fast or inextricably involved : snare, trap —usually used in plural

    Origin: circa 1529 ;

     Middle French toile cloth, net, from Old French teile, Latin tela cloth on a loom {mat|subtle|};

    [Noun]  | "toils" 


    1: something that catches and holds;


      * e.g., " ... a married woman hopelessly caught in the toils of an extramarital affair "



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    [Noun]  | "toil" 


    1: something that catches and holds;


      * e.g., " ... a married woman hopelessly caught in the toils of an extramarital affair "



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    [Noun]  | "toil" 


    1: very hard or unpleasant work;


      * e.g., " ... after years of toil in a sweatshop, Kim was finally able to start her own dressmaking business "




    [Verb]  | "toils" 


    1: to devote serious and sustained effort;


      * e.g., " ... toiled for many years on the mammoth outdoor sculpture "



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    [Verb]  | "toil" 


    1: to devote serious and sustained effort;


      * e.g., " ... toiled for many years on the mammoth outdoor sculpture "



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