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moilingadjective requiring considerable physical or mental effortthe kind of moiling work that was done by unskilled laborers before the age of mechanization arduous, Augean, backbreaking, challenging, demanding, difficult, effortful, exacting, formidable, grueling(or gruelling), hard, heavy, hellacious, herculean, killer, laborious, murderous, pick-and-shovel, rigorous, rough, rugged, severe, stiff, strenuous, sweaty, tall, testing, toilsome, tough, uphill abstract, abstruse, complex, complicated, elusive, hairy, insoluble, intricate, involved, knotty, opaque, problematic(also problematical), recondite, serious, spiny, stubborn, thorny, ticklish, trickybruising, burdensome, exhausting, labored, onerous, oppressive, stressful, taxing, tight, tryingannoying, bothersome, distressing, irksome, troublesome, vexatiousgrievous, grim, strict, stringentbrutal, cruel, inhuman, painful cheap, easy, effortless, facile, light, mindless, simple, soft, undemanding achievable, clear, doable, elementary, manageable, uncomplicatedcomforting, gentle, painless, relaxed, smooth, soothingaccessible, friendly, idiotproof, user-friendly moilingverbpresent participle of moilto devote serious and sustained effortminers moiling all day in the sunless recesses of the earth banging away, beavering (away), digging (away), drudging, endeavoring, fagging, grubbing, humping, hustling, laboring, pegging (away), plodding, plowing, plugging, slaving, slogging, straining, striving, struggling, sweating, toiling, travailing, tugging, working applying (oneself), buckling (down), digging in, hammering (away), knuckling down, pitching inattacking, drivingessaying, tryingexercising, exerting, overexerting, overworkingeking out, grinding (out), putting out, scrabbling, scratchingtrudging, wading sweating blood breaking, easing (up), letting up, slackeningbumming, chilling, dallying, dillydallying, footling, goldbricking, goofing (off), hacking (around), hanging (around or out), idling, lazing, loafing, lounging, shirking, slacking (off), vegging outbasking, lolling, relaxing, reposing, resting, unwindingdabbling, doodling, fooling around, fribbling, goofing (around), hanging, hanging about(British), messing around, monkeying (around), playing, pottering (around), puttering (around), trifling to be in a state of violent rolling motionthe angry mob moiled around the courthouse boiling, churning, roiling, seething reeling, spinning, swirling, whirlingagitating, stirring abating, calming, subsiding in 1566 |