Synonyms for TOIL
tɔɪltoil

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:3.7 / 3 votes

1. toil

   Work is the generic term for any continuous application of energy toward an end; work may be hard or easy. Labor is hard and wearying work; toil is straining and exhausting work. Work is also used for any result of working, physical or mental, and has special senses, as in mechanics, which labor and toil do not share. Drudgery is plodding, irksome, and often menial work. Compare ACT; BUSINESS.

   Synonyms:
   achievement, action, business, deed, doing, drudgery, employment, exertion, labor, occupation, performance, product, production, work

   Antonyms:
   ease, idleness, leisure, recreation, relaxation, repose, rest, vacation

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1. toilnoun

   Synonyms:
   labor, pain, fatigue, drudgery, work, exertion, task, travail

   Antonyms:
   ease, relaxation, rest, recreation, amusement, pleasure

2. toilverb

   Synonyms:
   labor, work, drudge, strive

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1. labor, labour, toilverb

   productive work (especially physical work done for wages)

   "his labor did not require a great deal of skill"

   Synonyms:
   labour, labor movement, confinement, parturiency, working class, undertaking, labor, trade union movement, childbed, task, toil, proletariat, travail, lying-in, project

2. labor, labour, toil, fag, travail, grind, drudge, dig, moilverb

   work hard

   "She was digging away at her math homework"; "Lexicographers drudge all day long"

   Synonyms:
   compass, comminute, tug, boil, roil, toil, grind, dig, craunch, drudge, moil, dig up, tire, wear out, poke, cut into, crunch, churn, cranch, jab, grasp, weary, prod, jade, tire out, wear upon, fatigue, travail, delve, get the picture, drive, hollow, stab, apprehend, outwear, comprehend, turn over, excavate, labor, mash, wear down, savvy, push, grok, wear, bray, dig out, grate, fag out, labour

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1. toilverb

   Synonyms:
   labor (hard), work, strive, drudge, moil, exert one's self, take pains

2. toilnoun

   Synonyms:
   labor (that fatigues), work, exertion, pains, effort, drudgery, hard work

3. toilnoun

   Synonyms:
   snare, net, trap

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1. toilnoun

   Synonyms:
   labor, drudgery, toils, snare, trap

2. toilverb

   Synonyms:
   labor, moil, drudge

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1. List of paraphrases for "toil":

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1. Harriet Beecher Stowe:

   So long as the law considers all these human beings, with beating hearts and living affections, only as so many things belonging to the master -- so long as the failure, or misfortune, or imprudence, or death of the kindest owner, may cause them any day to exchange a life of kind protection and indulgence for one of hopeless misery and toil -- so long it is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best-regulated administration of slavery.

2. Dwight D. Eisenhower:

   We merely want to live in peace with all the world, to trade with them, to commune with them, to learn from their culture as they may learn from ours, so that the products of our toil may be used for our schools and our roads and our churches and not for guns and planes and tanks and ships of war.

3. John Ruskin:

   The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it.

4. Alexander The Great:

   Toil and risk are the price of glory, but it is a lovely thing to live with courage and die leaving an everlasting fame.

5. Adam Smith:

   The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.