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toilnoun1 very hard or unpleasant workafter years of toil in a sweatshop, Kim was finally able to start her own dressmaking business donkeywork, drudge, drudgery, fatigue, grind, labor, moil, slavery, sweat, travail spadeworkeffort, exertion, pains, struggle, troublechore, duty, job, obligation, responsibilityroutine, tedium, treadmill fun, play decompression, ease, leisure, relaxation, repose, restamusement, dalliance, diversion, entertainment, recreation, sportdormancy, idleness, inactivity, inertia, inertnessdallying, goldbricking, loafing, lolling, lounging something that catches and holdsa married woman hopelessly caught in the toils of an extramarital affair entanglement, mesh(es), morass, net, noose, quagmire, quicksand, snare, tanglement, trap, web knot, snarl, tanglecat's cradle, labyrinth, mazecobweb, spiderweb to devote serious and sustained efforttoiled for many years on the mammoth outdoor sculpture bang away, beaver (away), dig (away), drudge, endeavor, fag, grub, hump, hustle, labor, moil, peg (away), plod, plow, plug, slave, slog, strain, strive, struggle, sweat, travail, tug, work apply (oneself), buckle (down), dig in, hammer (away), knuckle down, pitch inattack, driveessay, tryexercise, exert, overexert, overworkeke out, grind (out), put out, scrabble, scratchtrudge, wade sweat blood break, ease (up), let up, slackenbum, chill, dally, dillydally, footle, goldbrick, goof (off), hack (around), hang (around or out), idle, laze, loaf, lounge, shirk, slack (off), veg outbask, loll, relax, repose, rest, unwinddabble, doodle, fool around, fribble, goof (around), hang, hang about(British), mess around, monkey (around), play, potter (around), putter (around), trifle n.work, labor, travail, toil, drudgery, grind mean activity involving effort or exertion.work may imply activity of body, of mind, of a machine, or of a natural force.too tired to do any work labor applies to physical or intellectual work involving great and often strenuous exertion.farmers demanding fair compensation for their labor travail is bookish for labor involving pain or suffering.years of travail were lost when the house burned toil implies prolonged and fatiguing labor.his lot would be years of back-breaking toil drudgery suggests dull and irksome labor.an editorial job with a good deal of drudgery grind implies labor exhausting to mind or body.the grind of the assembly line in the 14th century |