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Synonyms
toil1 (toil)

[Middle English toilen, from Anglo-Norman toiler, to stir about, from Latin tudiculāre, from tudicula, a machine for bruising olives diminutive of tudes, hammer.]

intransitive verb: toiled, toil·ing, toils. 

  1. To labor continuously; work strenuously.
  2. To proceed with difficulty: toiling over the mountains.

noun 

  1. Exhausting labor or effort: “A bit of the blackest and coarsest bread is . . . the sole recompense and the sole profit attaching to so arduous a toil” (George Sand) See synonyms at work
  2. Archaic Strife; contention.

derivatives

toiĺer
noun
toil2 (toil)

[French toile, cloth, from Old French teile, from Latin tēla, web.]

noun 

  1. Something that binds, snares, or entangles one; an entrapment. Often used in the plural: caught in the toils of despair.
  2. Archaic A net for trapping game.