What does toiling mean?

Definitions for toiling
toil·ing

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. drudging, laboring, labouring, toilingadjective

    doing arduous or unpleasant work

    "drudging peasants"; "the bent backs of laboring slaves picking cotton"; "toiling coal miners in the black deeps"

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  1. toiling

    Toiling refers to working extremely hard or incessantly, often involving strenuous or exhausting labor. It can also involve struggling or battling against challenging circumstances.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Toiling

    of Toil

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of toiling in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of toiling in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of toiling in a Sentence

  1. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:

    The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.

  2. William Graham Sumner:

    Property left to a child may soon be lost but the inheritance of virtue--a good name an unblemished reputation--will abide forever. If those who are toiling for wealth to leave their children, would but take half the pains to secure for them virtuous habits, how much more serviceable would they be. The largest property may be wrested from a child, but virtue will stand by him to the last.

  3. Winston Churchill:

    The heights of great men reached and kept, Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upwards in the night.

  4. Discovery Channel star Dave Turin:

    We work long hours — 12 hours a day, six days a week. The gold matters to these guys and what you see is you see us toiling. It is a struggle, he said. People live vicariously through us because we go to some crazy places. there are millions of people that do this job and take it very seriously. It’s a good profession that has taken some hits. I am passionate about mining and mining in the correct way.

  5. Mukut Singh:

    We are the ones who have provided food, milk, vegetables when the whole country was in lockdown -- we were still toiling in the fields, it is the government who has put us at risk by introducing these laws during Covid.

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