• IPA: /tɔɪl/

toil

1. Labour, work, especially of a grueling nature.

   Synonyms: derve, drudgery, swink, Thesaurus:drudgery

2. Trouble, strife.
3. (usually, in plural) A net or snare; any thread, web, or string spread for taking prey.

• German: Mühe
• Italian: lavoro, fatica
• Portuguese: labuta
• Russian: труд

• Italian: disputa, tenzone, litigio, baruffa, diverbio
• Russian: беда́

toil (toils, present participle toiling; past and past participle toiled)

1. (intransitive) To labour; work.
2. (intransitive) To struggle.
3. (transitive) To work (something); often with out.

   • places well toiled and husbanded

   • 1667, John Milton, “Book 10”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […] [a]nd by Robert Boulter […] [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], OCLC 228722708 ↗; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: The Text Exactly Reproduced from the First Edition of 1667: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554 ↗:

     [I] toiled out my uncouth passage.

4. (transitive) To weary through excessive labour.
   • 1595 December 9 (first known performance)​​, William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act IV, scene i]:

     toiled with works of war

• French: travailler
• German: schuften, sich plagen, sich quälen
• Russian: труди́ться
• Spanish: labrar, trabajar

toil (uncountable)

1. (UK, employment) Initialism of time off in lieu