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moil
Overview of verb moil
The verb moil has 3 senses (no senses from tagged texts)
1. labor, labour, toil, fag, travail, grind, drudge, dig, moil -- (work hard; "She was digging away at her math homework"; "Lexicographers drudge all day long")
2. churn, boil, moil, roil -- (be agitated; "the sea was churning in the storm")
3. moil -- (moisten or soil; "Her tears moiled the letter")
Grep of noun moil
turmoil
Antonyms of verb moil
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb moil
3 senses of moil
Sense 1
labor, labour, toil, fag, travail, grind, drudge, dig, moil
=> work, do work
Sense 2
churn, boil, moil, roil
=> move
Sense 3
moil
=> smear
=> dirty, soil, begrime, grime, colly, bemire
=> change, alter, modify
Troponyms (hyponyms) of verb moil
1 of 3 senses of moil
Sense 2
churn, boil, moil, roil
=> seethe, roll
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb moil
3 senses of moil
Sense 1
labor, labour, toil, fag, travail, grind, drudge, dig, moil
=> work, do work
Sense 2
churn, boil, moil, roil
=> move
Sense 3
moil
=> smear
'Cause To' of verb moil
Derived Forms of verb moil
Domain of verb moil
Domain Terms of verb moil
Familiarity of verb moil
moil used as a verb is uncommon (polysemy count =3)
Sample Sentences of verb moil
3 senses of moil
Sense 1
labor, labour, toil, fag, travail, grind, drudge, dig, moil
*> Somebody ----s
*> Somebody ----s PP
Sense 2
churn, boil, moil, roil
EX: The water moils
Sense 3
moil
*> Somebody ----s something
*> Something ----s something
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of verb moil
3 senses of moil
Sense 1
labor, labour, toil, fag, travail, grind, drudge, dig, moil
> work, do work
=> serve
=> bank
=> fill, take
=> drive
=> tinker
=> serve
=> fink, scab, rat, blackleg
=> labor, labour, toil, fag, travail, grind, drudge, dig, moil
=> farm
=> moonlight
=> job
=> man
=> slave, break one's back, buckle down, knuckle down
=> free-lance
=> subcontract
=> turn a trick
=> freelance
Sense 2
churn, boil, moil, roil
> move
=> move involuntarily, move reflexively
=> quicken
=> stretch, stretch out
=> snap, click, flick
=> flex, bend
=> spread, propagate
=> reach, reach out
=> putter, potter, potter around, putter around
=> dance, trip the light fantastic, trip the light fantastic toe
=> drop back
=> hit the dirt, hit the deck
=> gravitate
=> fly
=> move over, give way, give, ease up, yield
=> cut to
=> lurch, pitch, shift
=> jolt, jar
=> duck
=> bob
=> wallow, welter
=> writhe, wrestle, wriggle, worm, squirm, twist
=> wobble, coggle
=> sidle, sashay
=> sidle
=> sweep, sail
=> brush, sweep
=> wamble, waggle
=> chop
=> reciprocate
=> move back and forth
=> nod
=> pulsate, beat, quiver
=> beat, pound, thump
=> teeter, seesaw, totter
=> buck, jerk, hitch
=> cant, cant over, tilt, slant, pitch
=> careen, wobble, shift, tilt
=> churn, boil, moil, roil
=> steal, slip
=> shake, agitate
=> vibrate
=> jerk, twitch
=> flip, twitch
=> snap, click
=> stir, shift, budge, agitate
=> arouse, stir
=> dance
=> stumble, trip
=> falter, waver
=> roll, undulate, flap, wave
=> mill, mill about, mill around
=> turn
=> startle, jump, start
=> mope, mope around
=> hop on, mount, mount up, get on, jump on, climb on, bestride
=> climb
=> strike out
=> jump, leap, bound, spring
=> bolt
=> get down
=> assume, take, strike, take up
=> seesaw
=> displace
=> exit, go out, get out, leave
=> separate, part, split
=> diverge
=> list, lean
=> whirl, tumble, whirl around
=> close, come together
=> bustle, bustle about, hustle
=> fidget
=> linger, dawdle
=> flinch, squinch, funk, cringe, shrink, wince, recoil, quail
=> lunge, hurl, hurtle, thrust
=> swoop
=> flow, flux
=> run, flow, feed, course
=> flurry
=> streak
=> heave
=> crash
=> thunder
=> snap
=> beat, flap
=> fling
=> hop
=> turn
=> dodge
=> dodge
=> throw
=> make way
=> dance
=> grab
=> cut
=> close
=> jump, leap, jump off
Sense 3
moil
> smear
=> moil
=> smirch, besmirch
Synonyms (Grouped by Similarity of Meaning) of verb moil
Sense 1
labor, labour, toil, fag, travail, grind, drudge, dig, moil
=> work, do work
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Sense 2
churn, boil, moil, roil
=> move
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Sense 3
moil
=> smear
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Grep of verb moil
moil
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