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 Dubois bout suggested Joshua is in decline, the toil of 33 professional fights after an amateur career eroding his powers.
From BBC
"He toiled away all day and finally got some reward. There’s enough in the pitch. We saw that, and finally he picked up a couple of late wickets."
From Barron's
They toiled badly at times, but they got the job done, they triumphed on the road in Europe, which is something Celtic rarely do.
From BBC
What’s even more remarkable is that he’s putting up such outrageous numbers while toiling away for a team that’s completely horrible.
Pro prospect players and their reps have already concluded that the non-playoff bowls are a waste of time–witness the annual parade of dropouts and thinned out rosters toiling in these games.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
