toiling

Definition of Toiling in English :

Adjective

1. drudging, laboring, labouring, toiling

doing arduous or unpleasant work

Example Sentences:
'drudging peasants'
'the bent backs of laboring slaves picking cotton'
'toiling coal miners in the black deeps'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Toiling

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noun

1.

hard or exhausting work

2. an obsolete word for strife

verb

3. (intransitive)

to labour

4. (intransitive)

to progress with slow painful movements

to toil up a hill

5. (transitive) archaic

to achieve by toil

noun

1. (often plural)

a net or snare

the toils of fortune had ensnared him

2. archaic

a trap for wild beasts

Toiling

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verb intransitive

1.

to work hard and continuously; labor

2.

to proceed laboriously; advance or move with painful effort or difficulty

to toil up a mountain

verb transitive

3. Rare

to make or accomplish with great effort

noun

4. Archaic

contention; struggle; strife

5.

hard, exhausting work or effort; tiring labor

6.

a task performed by such effort

noun

1. Archaic

a net for trapping

2. [pl.]

any snare suggestive of a net

Toiling

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intr.v. toiled, toil·ing, toils

1. To labor continuously; work strenuously.

2. To proceed with difficulty: "The old woman ... proceeded to toil up the narrow staircase before us" (James Joyce).

n.

1. Exhausting labor or effort. See Synonyms at work.

2. Archaic Strife; contention.

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