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Definición y significado de moil
Definición
moil (v.)
1.moisten or soil"Her tears moiled the letter"
2.be agitated"the sea was churning in the storm"
3.work hard"She was digging away at her math homework" "Lexicographers drudge all day long"
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MoilMoil (?), 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.
MoilMoil, 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.
MoilMoil, n. A spot; a defilement.
The moil of death upon them. Mrs. Browning.
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moil (v.)
↘ grind, hard worker, slogger, swot
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Diccionario analógico
moil (v.)
smear[Hyper.]
moil (v.)
travailler durement (fr)[Classe]
(awkward; difficult; hard; stiff; tough; heavy; uphill), (difficulty)[termes liés]
labor, labour, toil - donkeywork, donkey-work, drudgery, fag, grind, labour, plodding, slog, toil - effort, elbow grease, endeavor, endeavour, exertion, sweat, travail - enterprise, labor, project, task, undertaking - drudge, galley slave, navvy, peon - drudge, hack, hacker - jack, laborer, labourer, manual laborer, manual worker - dweeb, grind, nerd, swot, wonk - grind, hard worker, slogger, swot, toiler[Dérivé]
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