{
    "term": "toil",
    "partOfSpeech": "verb",
    "verbForms": {
        "presentSimple": {
            "iYouWeThey": "toil",
            "heSheIt": "toils"
        },
        "pastSimple": "toiled",
        "pastParticiple": "toiled",
        "ingForm": "toiling"
    },
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "to work very hard and/or for a long time, usually doing hard physical work",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Hundreds of men toiled for years at building the pyramid."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She toils tirelessly for various charities."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "to move slowly and with difficulty",
            "sensetop": "+ adv./prep.",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "They toiled up the hill in the blazing sun."
                }
            ],
            "synonyms": "slog"
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/tɔɪl/",
                "audio": "to/toil/toil__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/tɔɪlz/",
                "audio": "to/toil/toils__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/tɔɪld/",
                "audio": "to/toil/toiled__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈtɔɪlɪŋ/",
                "audio": "to/toil/toiling__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/tɔɪl/",
                "audio": "to/toil/toil__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/tɔɪlz/",
                "audio": "to/toil/toils__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/tɔɪld/",
                "audio": "to/toil/toiled__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈtɔɪlɪŋ/",
                "audio": "to/toil/toiling__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Middle English (in the senses ‘contend verbally’ and ‘strife’): from Anglo-Norman French toiler ‘strive, dispute’, toil ‘confusion’, from Latin tudiculare ‘stir about’, from tudicula ‘machine for crushing olives’, related to tundere ‘crush’."
}