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4 meanings: 1. to moisten or soil or become moist, soiled, etc 2. to toil or drudge (esp in the phrase toil and moil) 3. toil;.... Click for more definitions.
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Moil definition: to work hard; drudge. . See examples of MOIL used in a sentence.
The meaning of MOIL is to make wet or dirty. Did you know? ... meaning "soft." (Other English derivatives of mollis are emollient, mollify, and mollusk.)
early 1600s. The earliest known use of the noun moil is in the early 1600s. OED's earliest evidence for moil is from 1611, in the writing of John Davies, poet and writing-master. It is also recorded as a verb from the Middle English period (1150—1500). moil is formed within English, by conversion.
moil. ( mɔɪl) vb. 1. to moisten or soil or become moist, soiled, etc. 2. ( intr) to toil or drudge (esp in the phrase toil and moil) n. 3. toil; drudgery. 4. confusion; turmoil. [C14 (to moisten; later: to work hard in unpleasantly wet conditions) from Old French moillier, ultimately from Latin mollis soft]
