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moil

verb/mɔɪl/

C2CEFR level
95/100Rarity: very rare
LiteraryRegister

To work hard, toil or drudge, often laboriously.

They moiled from dawn in the quarry, splitting stone the whole day long.

Similar: toil, drudge, labour

Origin: From Old French moillier 'to wet, paddle in mud', from Latin mollis 'soft'.

Topic: toil in General English

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