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Noun
Trickery or deception used as a form of entrapment
“Sooner or later, sociopaths tend to get caught in their manipulative toils.”
Noun
Any thread, web, or string spread for taking prey
“I was like a wild beast that had broken the toils, destroying the objects that obstructed me and ranging through the wood with a stag-like swiftness.”
Noun
A difficult situation, or the involvement in one
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Hard or exhausting work or effort
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Plural for exhausting work, especially physical labor
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“Unless we are to believe naively that leisure and luxury crystallize out of thin air, we must recognize and acknowledge that the comforts of globalization are reaped from the labor and toil of others.”
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Plural for a difficult or tedious task or undertaking
“The maid was given the toil of a slave and unpleasant tasks to perform, so that the parents could gauge her usefulness in these tasks.”
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Plural for the state of being a villein
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Plural for the state or condition of being difficult
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Plural for severe suffering, difficulty or privation
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Plural for a network of fine threads, especially one constructed by a spider
Verb
To apply great and continuous effort
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“Gardeners toil in the hot sun all spring and summer, and then watch everything die in the fall before they start over again the following spring.”
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To move slowly and with difficulty
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“I strap everything to my pack, and toil my way up the last three miles in my soggy snowboard boots.”
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(intransitive) To persist in or proceed with an activity or action
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