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Thesaurus: moil

To daub; to make dirty; to soil; to defile.

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  1. v. t. To daub; to make dirty; to soil; to defile.
  2. v. i. To soil one's self with severe labor; to work with painful effort; to labor; to toil; to drudge.
  3. n. A spot; a defilement.
  4. v. work hard
  5. v. be agitated
  6. v. moisten or soil
  7. To daub; to make dirty; to soil; to defile. Thou ... doest thy mind in dirty pleasures moil. Spenser. 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. A spot; a defilement. The moil of death upon them. Mrs. Browning.
  8. To daub; to make dirty; to soil; to defile.Thou ... doest thy mind in dirty pleasures moil. Spenser.