Meaning of MOIL
| Pronunciation: | | moyl
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- [v] moisten or soil; "Her tears moiled the letter"
- [v] be agitated; of liquids
- [v] work hard; "She was digging away at her math homework"; "Lexicographers drudge all day long"
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| | Synonyms: | | boil, churn, dig, drudge, fag, grind, labor, labour, roil, toil, travail |
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| | See Also: | | do work, move, roll, seethe, smear, work | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Moil\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Moiled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Moiling}.] [OE. moillen to wet, OF. moillier, muillier, F.
mouller, fr. (assumed) LL. molliare, fr. L. mollis soft. See
{Mollify}.]
To daub; to make dirty; to soil; to defile.
Thou . . . doest thy mind in dirty pleasures moil.
--Spenser.
\Moil\, v. i. [From {Moil} to daub; prob. from the idea of
struggling through the wet.]
To soil one's self with severe labor; to work with painful
effort; to labor; to toil; to drudge.
Moil not too much under ground. --Bacon.
Now he must moil and drudge for one he loathes.
--Dryden.
\Moil\, n.
A spot; a defilement.
The moil of death upon them. --Mrs.
Browning.
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| | Related Terms: | | agitation, be turbulent, bluster, bobbery, boil, boiling, brouhaha, bubble, bustle, churn, clamor, commotion, conturbation, dig, dirty work, discomposure, disorder, disquiet, disquietude, disturbance, donkeywork, drive, drudge, drudgery, ebullition, embroilment, employment, excitement, fag, fatigue, ferment, fermentation, fever, feverishness, fidgets, flap, flurry, fluster, flutteration, foment, fume, fuss, grind, grub, hammer, hammer away, handiwork, handwork, hubbub, hurly-burly, industry, inquietude, jitters, jumpiness, labor, lather, lick, lick of work, maelstrom, malaise, manual labor, mill, mill around, nerviness, nervosity, nervousness, peg, peg away, perturbation, plod, plug, plug along, plug away, plugging, pound away, rat race, restlessness, roil, rout, row, ruction, scut work, seethe, seething, simmer, slavery, slog, slogging, smolder, spadework, stir, strain, strive, stroke, stroke of work, sweat, swirl, task, tiresome work, to-do, toil, travail, treadmill, trepidation, trepidity, tug, tumult, tumultuation, turbidity, turbulence, turmoil, twitter, unease, unrest, uproar, upset, wade through, work, work away |
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