toiling Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb work hard
    moil; travail; dig; grind; labour; drudge; toil; labor; fag.
    • She was digging away at her math homework
    • Lexicographers drudge all day long
  2. adjective satellite doing arduous or unpleasant work
    labouring; drudging; laboring.
    • drudging peasants
    • the bent backs of laboring slaves picking cotton
    • toiling coal miners in the black deeps

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