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 other men on the line, in their 50s and 60s, had similarly gotten amnesty after years toiling in the fields.
From Los Angeles Times
As Baraa toils on, he longs for a return to a normal life with prospects of more profitable employment.
From BBC
Like lottery winners, wealthy individuals fear their offspring might blow money they haven’t had to toil for.
For 77 minutes the United head coach watched his players toil.
From BBC
No way were they created from the blood, sweat and beers of toiling engineers, massive amounts of human ingenuity melded with trillions in capital delivered along land, ship and jet trade routes.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
