[
UK
/mˈɔɪl/
]
VERB
-
work hard
Lexicographers drudge all day long
She was digging away at her math homework -
be agitated
the sea was churning in the storm -
moisten or soil
Her tears moiled the letter
How To Use moil In A Sentence
- The presidential election will be conducted against a backdrop of seismic political and economic turmoil. Times, Sunday Times
- At first sight, the economy hit the August turmoil in fine fettle.
- With the current turmoil in the US economy one wonders if people will be quite so free with their money on luxuries this year.
- His success enfeebled the national democratic process, plunging Cambodia back into turmoil that continues to plague it today.
- Was this the beginning of a turnaround for a career that has stalled on the back of personal turmoil and a technique that has deserted him? Times, Sunday Times
- Soon, however, social turmoil swept the country, weakening the monarch's effectiveness as an arbiter of political disputes, and exacerbating communal violence among Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa, the three major ethnic communities.
- Gold futures turned positive Wednesday, bucking the second day of sliding commodities, as it reassumed its safe-haven identity amid turmoil in Europe. Gold Swoons, Then Rises on Risk Worries
- The voters may see the implications of global turmoil through a glass darkly. Times, Sunday Times
- Voters would be deeply unimpressed by leadership turmoil during an economic crisis. Times, Sunday Times
- But if restrictions off the field of play are irksome it's nothing compared to the turmoil he's going through on the pitch these days.