toil
Usage
What are other ways to say toil?
Toil suggests wearying or exhausting labor: toil that breaks down the worker's health. Drudgery suggests continuous, dreary, and dispiriting work, especially of a menial or servile kind: the drudgery of household tasks. Labor particularly denotes hard manual work: backbreaking labor; arduous labor. Work is the general word and may apply to exertion that is either easy or hard: fun work; heavy work.
Example Sentences
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The Scot had lost his previous seven matches against the Englishman and appeared to be toiling as he made a series of errors in the opening three frames.
From BBC
While he was not at his absolute best and toiled positionally at times in the closing frames, his ability to turn things around against Zhao was testimony to his granite match-play.
From BBC
Guo’s own grandmother never once stepped on board the boats on which her grandfather toiled.
From Los Angeles Times
The world's top two-ranked batsmen set about counter-attacking on a decent batting pitch providing little movement for the bowlers, who toiled hard in the second session without joy.
From Barron's
Tunisia toiled to create chances in extra time as heavy rain fell -- the conditions forcing many spectators in the largely uncovered stadium to abandon their seats.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
