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- [toil]
- /tɔɪl/
- /tɔɪl/
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- [toil]
- /tɔɪl/
Definitions of toiled word
- noun toiled hard and continuous work; exhausting labor or effort. 1
- noun toiled a laborious task. 1
- noun toiled Archaic. battle; strife; struggle. 1
- verb without object toiled to engage in hard and continuous work; labor arduously: to toil in the fields. 1
- verb without object toiled to move or travel with difficulty, weariness, or pain. 1
- verb with object toiled to accomplish or produce by toil. 1
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Origin of toiled
First appearance:
before 1250 One of the 11% oldest English words
1250-1300; Middle English toile (noun), toilen (v.) < Anglo-French toil contention, toiler to contend < Latin tudiculāre to stir up, beat, verbal derivative of tudicula machine for crushing olives, equivalent to tudi- (stem of tundere to beat) + -cula -cule2
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Parts of speech for Toiled
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
toiled popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 95% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
toiled usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for toiled
noun toiled
- endeavored — Simple past tense and past participle of endeavor.
- essayed — Simple past tense and past participle of essay.
- mousetrapped — Simple past tense and past participle of mousetrap.
- woofed — Simple past tense and past participle of woof.
verb toiled
- exerted — Simple past tense and past participle of exert.
- floundered — to struggle with stumbling or plunging movements (usually followed by about, along, on, through, etc.): He saw the child floundering about in the water.
- footslogged — Simple past tense and past participle of footslog.
- forded — a place where a river or other body of water is shallow enough to be crossed by wading.
- grubbed — Simple past tense and past participle of grub.
Antonyms for toiled
verb toiled
- idled — not working or active; unemployed; doing nothing: idle workers.
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