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toyle

toyle is the obsolete form of toil.

Meaning of toil

Verb

toil (third-person singular simple present toils, present participle toiling, simple past and past participle toiled)

  1. (intransitive) To labour; work.
    Synonyms:
    travail
  2. (intransitive) To struggle.
  3. (transitive) To work (something); often with out.
    • places well toiled and husbanded1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “(please specify |book=I to XXXVII)”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C....
  4. (transitive) To weary through excessive labour.
    • toiled with works of war1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to...

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Forms of toyle

Verb
third-person singular presenttoyles
present participletoyling
past participletoyled
pasttoyled
Noun
pluraltoyles

Questions about toyle

What is toyle the obsolete form of?
Toyle is the obsolete form of toil.

Words near toyle in the dictionary

  1. toyish
  2. toyishly
  3. toyishness
  4. toykind
  5. Toyland
  6. toyle
  7. toyled
  8. toyles
  9. toylesome
  10. toyless
  11. toylessness

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Adapted from Wiktionary: toyle (page history and authors); toil (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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