Synonyms of the word toil


TOILDIG - DRUDGE - FAG - GRIND - LABOR - LABOUR - MOIL - TRAVAIL - WORK

toil

  • n. labour, work, especially of a grueling nature.
  • n. trouble, strife.
  • n. A net or snare; any thread, web, or string spread for taking prey; usually in the plural.
  • v. (intransitive) To labour; work.
  • v. (intransitive) To struggle.
  • v. (transitive) To work (something); often with out.
  • v. (transitive) To weary through excessive labour.

dig

  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To move hard-packed earth out of the way, especially downward to make a hole…
  • v. (transitive) To get by digging; to take from the ground; often with up.
  • v. (mining) To take ore from its bed, in distinction from making excavations in search of ore.
  • v. (US, slang, dated) To work like a digger; to study ploddingly and laboriously.
  • v. (figuratively) To investigate, to research, often followed by out or up.
  • v. To thrust; to poke.
  • v. (volleyball) To defend against an attack hit by the opposing team by successfully passing the ball.
  • n. An archeological investigation.
  • n. (US, colloquial, dated) A plodding and laborious student.
  • n. A thrust; a poke.
  • n. (Britain, dialect, dated) A tool for digging.
  • n. (volleyball) A defensive pass of the ball that has been attacked by the opposing team.
  • v. (slang) To understand or show interest in.
  • v. (slang) To appreciate, or like.

drudge

  • n. A person who works in a low servile job.
  • n. (pejorative) Someone who works for (and may be taken advantage of by) someone else.
  • v. to labour in (or as in) a low servile job.

fag

  • n. (US, technical) In textile inspections, a rough or coarse defect in the woven fabric.
  • n. (Britain, Ireland, Australia, colloquial, dated in US and Canada) A cigarette.
  • n. (Britain, obsolete, colloquial) The worst part or end of a thing.
  • n. (Britain, colloquial) A chore; an arduous and tiresome task.
  • n. (Britain, education, archaic, colloquial) In many British boarding schools, a younger student acting as…
  • v. (transitive, colloquial, used mainly in passive form) To make exhausted, tired out.
  • v. (intransitive, colloquial) To droop; to tire.
  • v. (Britain, education, archaic, colloquial) For a younger student to act as a servant for senior students…
  • v. (Britain, archaic) To work hard, especially on menial chores.
  • n. (vulgar, offensive) A homosexual man.
  • n. (US, vulgar, offensive) An annoying person.

grind

  • v. To reduce to smaller pieces by crushing with lateral motion.
  • v. To shape with the force of friction.
  • v. (metalworking) To remove material by rubbing with an abrasive surface.
  • v. To become ground, pulverized, or polished by friction.
  • v. To move with much difficulty or friction; to grate.
  • v. (sports) To slide the flat portion of a skateboard or snowboard across an obstacle such as a railing.
  • v. To oppress, hold down or weaken.
  • v. (slang) To rotate the hips erotically.
  • v. (slang) To dance in a sexually suggestive way with both partners in very close proximity, often pressed…
  • v. (video games) To repeat a task a large number of times in a row to achieve a specific goal.
  • v. To produce mechanically and repetitively as if by turning a crank.
  • v. To instill through repetitive teaching.
  • v. (slang, Hawaii) To eat.
  • v. (slang) To work or study hard; to hustle or drudge.
  • n. The act of reducing to powder, or of sharpening, by friction.
  • n. Something that has been reduced to powder, something that has been ground.
  • n. A specific degree of pulverization of coffee beans.
  • n. A tedious task.
  • n. A grinding trick on a skateboard or snowboard.
  • n. (archaic, slang) One who studies hard; a swot.
  • n. Grindcore (subgenre of heavy metal).
  • n. A traditional communal pilot whale hunt in the Faroe Islands.

labor

  • n. American standard spelling of labour.
  • v. American standard spelling of labour.

labour

  • n. Effort expended on a particular task; toil, work.
  • n. That which requires hard work for its accomplishment; that which demands effort.
  • n. (uncountable) Workers in general; the working class, the workforce; sometimes specifically the labour…
  • n. (uncountable) A political party or force aiming or claiming to represent the interests of labour.
  • n. The act of a mother giving birth.
  • n. The time period during which a mother gives birth.
  • n. (nautical) The pitching or tossing of a vessel which results in the straining of timbers and rigging.
  • n. An old measure of land area in Mexico and Texas, approximately 177 acres.
  • v. (intransitive) To toil, to work.
  • v. (transitive) To belabour, to emphasise or expand upon (a point in a debate, etc).
  • v. To be oppressed with difficulties or disease; to do one's work under conditions which make it especially…
  • v. To suffer the pangs of childbirth.
  • v. (nautical) To pitch or roll heavily, as a ship in a turbulent sea.

moil

  • v. To toil, to work hard.
  • v. To churn continually.
  • v. (Britain, transitive) To defile or dirty.
  • n. Hard work.
  • n. Confusion, turmoil.
  • n. A spot; a defilement.
  • n. (glassblowing) The glass circling the tip of a blowpipe or punty, such as the residual glass after detaching…
  • n. (glassblowing, blow molding) The excess material which adheres to the top, base, or rim of a glass object…
  • n. (glassblowing) The metallic oxide from a blowpipe which has adhered to a glass object.

travail

  • n. (archaic) Arduous or painful exertion; excessive labor, suffering, hardship.
  • n. Specifically, the labor of childbirth.
  • n. (obsolete, countable) An act of working; labor (US), labour (British).
  • n. (obsolete) The eclipse of a celestial object.
  • n. Obsolete form of travel.
  • n. Alternative form of travois (“a kind of sled”).
  • v. To toil.
  • v. To go through the labor of childbirth.

work

  • n. (heading, uncountable) Employment.
  • n. (heading, uncountable) Effort.
  • n. Sustained effort to achieve a goal or result, especially overcoming obstacles.
  • n. (heading) Product; the result of effort.
  • n. (uncountable, slang, professional wrestling) The staging of events to appear as real.
  • n. (mining) Ore before it is dressed.
  • v. (intransitive) To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.
  • v. (transitive) To effect by gradual degrees.
  • v. (transitive) To embroider with thread.
  • v. (transitive) To set into action.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to ferment.
  • v. (intransitive) To ferment.
  • v. (transitive) To exhaust, by working.
  • v. (transitive) To shape, form, or improve a material.
  • v. (transitive) To operate in a certain place, area, or speciality.
  • v. (transitive) To operate in or through; as, to work the phones.
  • v. (transitive) To provoke or excite; to influence.
  • v. (transitive) To use or manipulate to one’s advantage.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to happen or to occur as a consequence.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to work.
  • v. (intransitive) To function correctly; to act as intended; to achieve the goal designed for.
  • v. (intransitive, figuratively) To influence.
  • v. (intransitive) To effect by gradual degrees; as, to work into the earth.
  • v. (intransitive) To move in an agitated manner.
  • v. (intransitive) To behave in a certain way when handled;.
  • v. (transitive, with two objects, poetic) To cause (someone) to feel (something).
  • v. (obsolete, intransitive) To hurt; to ache.

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