Toiled vs Boiled - What's the difference?
toiled | boiled |
(toil)
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labour, work
* 1908:
trouble, strife
A net or snare; any thread, web, or string spread for taking prey; usually in the plural.
* Denham
* Dryden
To labour; work.
To struggle.
To work (something); often with out .
* Holland
* Milton
To weary through excessive labour.
* Shakespeare
(boil)
Cooked in boiling water.
(of water) having reached the boiling point
(colloquial) angry
(colloquial) drunk
As verbs the difference between toiled and boiled
is that toiled is (toil) while boiled is (boil).As an adjective boiled is
cooked in boiling water.toiled
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Verb
(head)toil
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Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- ...he set to work again and made the snow fly in all directions around him. After some further toil his efforts were rewarded, and a very shabby door-mat lay exposed to view.
- As a Numidian lion, when first caught, / Endures the toil that holds him.
- Then toils for beasts, and lime for birds, were found.
Verb
(en verb)- places well toiled and husbanded
- [I] toiled out my uncouth passage.
- toiled with works of war