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toil
What does toil mean?
toil (verb): to labor; work.
Definition: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
How do you pronounce toil?
/tɔɪl/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does toil come from?
From Middle English toilen, toylen, apparently a conflation of Anglo-Norman toiller (“to agitate, stir up, entangle”), and Middle English tilyen, telien, teolien, tolen, tolien, tulien (“to till, work, labour”).
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
What are synonyms of toil?
From Princeton WordNet 3.1.
Test yourself: do you know “toil”?
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What does “toil” mean?
grow vigorously
Not quite: that's what thrive means.
form or compose
Not quite: that's what constitute means.
empty of liquid
Not quite: that's what drain means.
to labor; work
Right! That's what “toil” means.
Which word is closest in meaning to “toil”?
labor
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trace
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rival
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climb
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