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Meanings of
toil
in English
Portuguese
trabalho
Catalan
feina
Spanish
trabajo
Back to the meaning
Productive work (especially physical work done for wages)
labour
labor
Portuguese
trabalho
Portuguese
trabalhar
Back to the meaning
Work hard.
dig
grind
fag
drudge
travail
moil
Portuguese
trabalhar
Usage of
toil
in English
1
The common life-thelife of people-thedaily
toil
-
the
pangs and the struggles.
2
And then the
toil
and self-denial for the stocking and the tree
3
It had been completed only thirty years ago, after generations of
toil
.
4
The lily may grow; the man must fret and
toil
and spin.
5
To some breath control seems second nature; others must
toil
for it.
6
It is without grief, and free from the
toil
involved in Pravritti.
7
I call upon independent men and women, free of families and
toil
.
8
I can speak only of what I observe in my daily
toil
.
9
By means of
toil
man shall scale the height; Who to fame
10
Accordingly in this field have the great poets and literatuses signally
toil
'd
.
11
All the true Initiates have recognized the usefulness of
toil
and sorrow.
12
Developers placed little protection due to the physical
toil
of hand drilling.
13
Another is reared in poverty and has to
toil
and suffer privation.
14
I see the boy can never appreciate the
toil
of our years.
15
And so my days passed by in a dull blur of
toil
.
16
They are each set in a world of
toil
,
threat and barbarity.
Other examples for "toil"
Grammar, pronunciation and more
About this term
toil
Verb
Indicative · Past Indefinite
Noun
Singular
Frequent collocations
daily toil
toil for
much toil
honest toil
hard toil
More collocations
Translations for
toil
Portuguese
trabalho
mão-de-obra
trabalhar
Catalan
feina
treball
labor
Spanish
trabajo
faena
labor
Toil
through the time
Toil
across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
Ireland
Less common
United States of America
Rare