toil

toil is a 4-letter English word with 7 senses as noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A net or snare; any thread, web, or string spread for taking prey; -- usually in the plural. Face value is 4 in Scrabble and 5 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 4 · Words With Friends 5 · 7 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A net or snare; any thread, web, or string spread for taking prey; -- usually in the plural.
2. intransitive verb. To exert strength with pain and fatigue of body or mind, especially of the body, with efforts of some continuance or duration; to labor; to work.
3. transitive verb. To weary; to overlabor.
4. transitive verb. To labor; to work; -- often with out.
5. verb. Labor with pain and fatigue; labor that oppresses the body or mind, esp. the body.
6. noun. productive work (especially physical work done for wages)

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

   Synonyms: labor, labour

7. verb. work hard

   "She was digging away at her math homework"

   "Lexicographers drudge all day long"

   Synonyms: dig, drudge, fag, grind, labor, labour, moil, travail

Synonyms

labor, labour, dig, drudge, fag, grind, moil, travail

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in toil:

ilot, loti

Common word forms

toils, toiled, toiler, toiles, toilful, toiling, toilless

Words from these letters

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