toil

1. 1.

   work hard

   “She was digging away at her math homework”

   “Lexicographers drudge all day long”

   Synonymslaborlabourfagtravailgrinddrudgedigmoil

   Broaderwork

Other forms of toil

plural

toils·

past tense

toiled·

present participle

toiling·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about toil

What does toil mean?

toil means "productive work (especially physical work done for wages)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in toil?

toil has 1 syllable: toil. In IPA it is /ˈtɔɪl/.

What is another word for toil?

Close synonyms include labor, labour, labor, labour, fag. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is toil a common word?

toil is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.