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Moil

verb
(past & past part. moiled; pres. part. moiling)
1.
Work hard.  Synonyms: dig, drudge, fag, grind, labor, labour, toil, travail.  "Lexicographers drudge all day long"
2.
Be agitated.  Synonyms: boil, churn, roil.
3.
Moisten or soil.






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"Moil" Quotes from Famous Books



... him a fraud and a crank, and go moiling and toiling on to the palace or the poor-house. We can't help it. If one were less greedy or less foolish, some one else would have and would shine at his expense. We don't moil and toil to ourselves alone; the palace or the poor-house is not merely for ourselves, but for our children, whom we've brought up in the superstition that having and shining is the chief good. We dare not teach them otherwise, for fear they may falter in the fight when it comes their turn, ...
— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells



Words linked to "Moil" :   seethe, churn, move, do work, work, roll, smear



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