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Noun toil has 1 sense
  1. labor, labour, toil - productive work (especially physical work done for wages); "his labor did not require a great deal of skill"
    --1 is a kind of work
    --1 has particulars:
     roping; corvee; drudgery, plodding, grind, donkeywork; effort, elbow grease, exertion, travail, sweat; hunt, hunting; hackwork; haymaking; manual labor, manual labour; overwork, overworking; slavery
    Derived form: verb toil1
,Verb toil has 1 sense
  1. labor, labour, toil, fag, travail, grind, drudge, dig, moil - work hard; "She was digging away at her math homework"; "Lexicographers drudge all day long"
    --1 is one way to work, do work
    Derived forms: noun toiler1, noun toil1
    Sample sentences:
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    Somebody ----s PP
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