'Moil' definitions:
Definition of 'moil'
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Definition of 'Moil'
From: GCIDE
- Moil \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. [1913 Webster]
- Thou . . . doest thy mind in dirty pleasures moil. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Moil'
From: GCIDE
- Moil \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. [1913 Webster]
- Moil not too much under ground. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
- Now he must moil and drudge for one he loathes. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Moil'
From: GCIDE
- Moil \Moil\, n. A spot; a defilement. [1913 Webster]
- The moil of death upon them. --Mrs. Browning. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'moil'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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