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Moil

Moil Meaning & Definition
Moil Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Moil?

[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"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Moil: boil | churn | dig | drudge | fag | grind | labor | labour | roil | toil | travail

Related Terms | Find terms related to Moil: 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

See Also | do work | move | roll | seethe | smear | work

Moil In Webster's Dictionary

\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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