Associations to the word «Toil»

Wiktionary

TOIL, noun. Labour, work, especially of a grueling nature
TOIL, noun. Trouble, strife
TOIL, noun. A net or snare; any thread, web, or string spread for taking prey; usually in the plural.
TOIL, verb. (intransitive) To labour; work.
TOIL, verb. (intransitive) To struggle.
TOIL, verb. (transitive) To work (something); often with out.
TOIL, verb. (transitive) To weary through excessive labour.
TOIL, noun. (UK) (employment) Initialism of time off in lieu.
TOIL AND MOIL, verb. To work hard; to drudge; to toil, to moil

Dictionary definition

TOIL, noun. Productive work (especially physical work done for wages); "his labor did not require a great deal of skill".
TOIL, verb. Work hard; "She was digging away at her math homework"; "Lexicographers drudge all day long".

Wise words

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King