Meaning & use
toil
To work long and hard, often at physically demanding or tedious tasks.
See it in a sentence
Farmers toiled in the fields from dawn until dusk during harvest season.
She toiled over the report for weeks before finally submitting it.
A note on using this word
Toil suggests exhausting, sustained effort, stronger than the neutral word 'work.'
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Another way to use it
2. noun
Long, hard, exhausting work.
Years of toil finally paid off when the small farm turned a profit.
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