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toil

noun as in hard work

verb as in work hard

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Example Sentences

Should farming interests push to protect and retain the undocumented workers who have toiled in the country’s fields for years and who, in many cases, have families and community roots?

One descendant of our last common ancestor went on to engulf a photosynthetic bacterium, which would then toil away harnessing the power of the sun to fuel this progenitor of all plants.

From Salon

Archaeologists normally operate on their own, toiling at some remote dig or surveying land in the wilderness.

During that time Joshua Zirkzee has also managed just one goal in 16 games for a United side that has toiled in the final third of the pitch.

From BBC

USC, once a women’s hoops powerhouse, had spent the past three decades toiling in relative obscurity.

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What are other ways to say toil?

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.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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