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toil

noun as in hard work

verb as in work hard

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Example Sentences

Born in rural Puebla, they had been laboring since they were 6, tending to goats and cows and then toiling in cornfields.

While he toiled in the training room to return to the field, Chark, 28, watched with pride as the Chargers’ young receivers experienced their first breakthrough moments.

Students spend hours toiling over dead bodies with gratitude and reverence for the donation that allows them to practice and learn about human anatomy in their journey to become healers.

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The psychological toll of Lennon’s addictions is palpable, as is the personal toil that was required for him to will yet another album into being.

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The scorpion has depths that ensure their insides will also be pried open — whether they like it or not, and no matter how hard they may toil and calculate to keep all their secrets.

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When To Use

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.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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