toil
/tɔɪl/ verb B2- To labour; work.
- To struggle.
- To work (something); often with out.
- To weary through excessive labour.
He/she/it toils · Past toiled · Past participle toiled · -ing form toiling
Verb forms
- Base form
- toil
- He/she/it
- toils
- Past
- toiled
- Past participle
- toiled
- -ing form
- toiling
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Thereafter he walked very carefully, with his eyes on the road, and when he saw a tiny ant toiling by he would step over it, so as not to harm it.
It sometimes happens that one man has all the toil, and another all the profit.
While I am hammering on the anvil, you sleep on the mat; and when I begin to eat after my toil, you wake up and wag your tail for food.
In the first place, I was four years making the tools I possess, and have been two years scraping and digging out earth, hard as granite itself; then what toil and fatigue has it not been to remove huge stones I should once have deemed impossible to loosen.
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