moil

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to work hard; toil, or to churn about in confusion

   The miners moiled underground from dawn until well past dusk.

From Middle English moillen ('to wet, moisten, drudge in mud'), from Old French moillier ('to wet, paddle in mud'), ultimately from Vulgar Latin *molliāre, from Latin mollis ('soft').

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