Toil
[tɒɪl] or [tɔɪl]
Definition
(n.) A net or snare; any thread, web, or string spread for taking prey; -- usually in the plural.
(v. i.) To exert strength with pain and fatigue of body or mind, especially of the body, with efforts of some continuance or duration; to labor; to work.
(v. t.) To weary; to overlabor.
(v. t.) To labor; to work; -- often with out.
(v.) Labor with pain and fatigue; labor that oppresses the body or mind, esp. the body.
Typed by Gwendolyn
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. Labor (hard), work, strive, drudge, moil, exert one's self, take pains.
n. [1]. Labor (that fatigues), work, exertion, pains, effort, drudgery, hard work.[2]. Snare, net, trap.
Edited by Adela
Definition
n. a net or snare.
v.i. to labour: to work with fatigue.—n. labour esp. of a fatiguing kind.—n. Toil′er.—adjs. Toil′ful Toil′some full of fatigue: wearisome; Toil′less.—adv. Toil′somely.—n. Toil′someness.—adj. Toil′-worn worn out with toil.
Edited by Jimmy
Examples
- Himself has hitherto sufficed to the toil, and the toil draws near its close: his glorious sun hastens to its setting. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Intelligence and spirit are not often combined with steadiness; the stolid, fearless, nature is averse to intellectual toil. Plato. The Republic.
- We have felt the fierce play of volcanic effort, lifting new continents of opportunity from the infertile sea, without any devastation of pre-existing fields of human toil and harvest. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I must struggle on: strive to live and bend to toil like the rest. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- The whites could not toil without becoming degraded, and those who did were denominated poor white trash. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- 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.
- Now did it take a hundred years of patient toil to carve the Sphynx? Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- No need, was again her answer--no need, no need: and her small step toiled wearily up the staircase. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- He deserved it all--all labour, all devotion, all sacrifice; I would have toiled up a scaleless Alp, to pluck a flower that would please him. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- I had toiled up a hill which led to Spoleto. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The atmosphere of those Fairy palaces was like the breath of the simoom: and their inhabitants, wasting with heat, toiled languidly in the desert. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- They toiled through the sand, charging an enemy who always evaded their charge and rode round them and shot them to pieces. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In the patient solving of tremendous problems he had toiled up the mountain-side of success--scaling its topmost peak and obtaining a view of the boundless prospect. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Martin grinned as he toiled up the steep, encumbered field, difficult to the foot as a slope in the upper realms of Etna. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- He saw every step which I took to draw my toils round him. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- In short, the wily old Jew had the boy in his toils. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Little recked Mr Podsnap of the traps and toils besetting his Young Person. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- For of course she always means something; and before I left Long Island I saw that she was beginning to lay her toils for Mattie. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- He remained to combat the fiend--his side unguarded, his toils unshared--infection might even reach him, and he die unattended and alone. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- But my toils now drew near a close and, two months from this time, I reached the environs of Geneva. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- In spite of resentment, by day and night she figured to herself the toils and dangers of the wanderers. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- It is a noble staircase, and from a distance the people toiling up it looked like insects. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- But she knew from her reading infinitely more of the ways of toiling insects than of these toiling men and women. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Then he limped on again, toiling and muttering. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Old Betty Higden fared upon her pilgrimage as many ruggedly honest creatures, women and men, fare on their toiling way along the roads of life. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Pondering, in its suggestive presence, I seemed to see a crazy universe of swinging disks, the toiling children of this sedate parent. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The German sword was always clattering over the Alps into Italy, and missions and legates toiling over in the reverse direction. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He remembered to have seen the waggons, as they went out, toiling up the hill. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
Typist: Merritt