Moil
[mɒil]
Definition
(v. t.) To daub; to make dirty; to soil; to defile.
(v. i.) To soil one's self with severe labor; to work with painful effort; to labor; to toil; to drudge.
(n.) A spot; a defilement.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. Labor, toil, drudge.
Typist: Marietta
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Daub, stain, dirt, muck, soil
ANT:Cleanse, clean, absterge, purify
Edited by Ben
Definition
v.t. to daub with dirt.—v.i. to toil or labour: to drudge.—n. a spot: a defilement.
Edited by Lizzie
Examples
- In actual life, yes, in the moil and toil of propaganda, movements, causes and agitations the statesman-inventor and the political psychologist find the raw material for their work. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Others toil and moil all their lives long--and the very dogs are not pitiful in our days, as they were in the days of Lazarus. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
Typed by Andy