Thesaurus / toil
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synonyms for toil
- strive
- sweat
- drudge
- grind away
- labor
- moil
- plod
- plug away
- strain
- struggle
- tug
- work
- knock oneself out
- peg away
- push oneself
- work like a dog
On this page you'll find 111 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to toil, such as: exertion, application, drudgery, effort, industry, and labor.
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Toil suggests wearying or exhausting labor: toil that breaks down the worker’s health. Drudgery suggests continuous, dreary, and dispiriting work, especially of a menial or servile kind: the drudgery of household tasks. Labor particularly denotes hard manual work: backbreaking labor; arduous labor. Work is the general word and may apply to exertion that is either easy or hard: fun work; heavy work.
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The reward for all that toil is something part liquid, part solid that has zero electrical resistance at room temperature—making it a superconductor.
TRANSPARENT ALUMINUM, AND 5 MORE REMARKABLE METALSSHI EN KIMAUGUST 2, 2022POPULAR-SCIENCEFor me, at least, suffering on the trail means that the pain and toil tend to crowd out space for convenience.
WHAT DID I LEARN FROM THE SWAMPY MUCK OF THE FLORIDA TRAIL? THAT I’M A KINK HIKER.PATTY HODAPPFEBRUARY 27, 2022OUTSIDE ONLINEThe Disc Embedding Theorem rewrites a proof completed in 1981 by Michael Freedman — about an infinite network of discs — after years of solitary toil on the California coast.
NEW MATH BOOK RESCUES LANDMARK TOPOLOGY PROOFKEVIN HARTNETTSEPTEMBER 9, 2021QUANTA MAGAZINEThe best applications are often those made at the last minute, because applicants do not overthink their responses and toil over details they think need to be shoved into a question.
YOU CAN’T HACK YOUR YC APPLICATION, BUT HERE’S WHAT TO AVOIDRAM IYERAUGUST 26, 2021TECHCRUNCHYes, progress is being made, but it must be faster if the current toils of agency execs are anything to go by.
‘MY MENTAL ABILITIES ARE IMPAIRED BY WORK’: DISPARITY BETWEEN BOSSES AND STAFFERS ON MENTAL WELLNESS INTENSIFYSEB JOSEPHJUNE 1, 2021DIGIDAYHe was rejoicing in the upheaval that permitted debts to be paid with a bludgeon and money to be made without toil.
THE RED YEARLOUIS TRACYNot too big for the fiery old heart that trouble and toil and hunger and loneliness had never quenched.
A LOST HEROELIZABETH STUART PHELPS WARD AND HERBERT D. WARDHe was now evidently exhausted by toil, and dispirited by disappointment.
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, NO. CCCXXXIX. JANUARY, 1844. VOL. LV.VARIOUSThus it lightens the toil of the weary laborer plodding along the highway of life.
TOBACCO; ITS HISTORY, VARIETIES, CULTURE, MANUFACTURE AND COMMERCEE. R. BILLINGS.The comfortable yet humble apartments of the engraver were over the shop where he plied his daily toil.
MADAME ROLAND, MAKERS OF HISTORYJOHN S. C. ABBOTTWORDS RELATED TO TOIL
- accomplishment
- achievement
- act
- aim
- application
- aspiration
- attempt
- battle
- crack
- creation
- deed
- discipline
- drill
- elbow grease
- endeavor
- energy
- enterprise
- essay
- exercise
- feat
- fling
- force
- go
- industry
- intention
- job
- labor
- old college try
- pains
- power
- product
- production
- pull
- purpose
- push
- resolution
- shot
- spurt
- stab
- strain
- stress
- stretch
- strife
- striving
- struggle
- sweat
- tension
- toil
- training
- travail
- trial
- trouble
- try
- tug
- undertaking
- venture
- whack
- accomplishments
- achievements
- acts
- aims
- applications
- aspirations
- attempts
- battles
- cracks
- creations
- deeds
- disciplines
- drills
- elbow greases
- endeavors
- energies
- enterprises
- essays
- exercises
- feats
- flings
- forces
- go
- industries
- intentions
- jobs
- labors
- old college tries
- pains
- powers
- productions
- products
- pulls
- purposes
- pushes
- resolutions
- shots
- spurts
- stabs
- strains
- stresses
- stretches
- strife
- strivings
- struggles
- sweats
- tensions
- toil
- trainings
- travails
- trials
- tries
- troubles
- tugs
- undertakings
- ventures
- whacks
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.