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Wordnet 3.0

VERB (3)

1. work hard;
- Example: "She was digging away at her math homework"
- Example: "Lexicographers drudge all day long"
[syn: labor, labour, toil, fag, travail, grind, drudge, dig, moil]

2. be agitated;
- Example: "the sea was churning in the storm"
[syn: churn, boil, moil, roil]

3. moisten or soil;
- Example: "Her tears moiled the letter"


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Moil \Moil\, n. A spot; a defilement. [1913 Webster] The moil of death upon them. --Mrs. Browning. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

moil v 1: work hard; "She was digging away at her math homework"; "Lexicographers drudge all day long" [syn: labor, labour, toil, fag, travail, grind, drudge, dig, moil] 2: be agitated; "the sea was churning in the storm" [syn: churn, boil, moil, roil] 3: moisten or soil; "Her tears moiled the letter"