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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
agitation, be turbulent, bluster, bobbery, boil, boiling, brouhaha, bubble, bustle, churn, clamor, commotion, conturbation, dig, dirty work, discomposure, disorder, disquiet, disquietude, disturbance, donkeywork, drive, drudge, drudgery, ebullition, embroilment, employment, excitement, fag, fatigue, ferment, fermentation, fever, feverishness, fidgets, flap, flurry, fluster, flutteration, foment, fume, fuss, grind, grub, hammer, hammer away, handiwork, handwork, hubbub, hurly-burly, industry, inquietude, jitters, jumpiness, labor, lather, lick, lick of work, maelstrom, malaise, manual labor, mill, mill around, nerviness, nervosity, nervousness, peg, peg away, perturbation, plod, plug, plug along, plug away, plugging, pound away, rat race, restlessness, roil, rout, row, ruction, scut work, seethe, seething, simmer, slavery, slog, slogging, smolder, spadework, stir, strain, strive, stroke, stroke of work, sweat, swirl, task, tiresome work, to-do, toil, travail, treadmill, trepidation, trepidity, tug, tumult, tumultuation, turbidity, turbulence, turmoil, twitter, unease, unrest, uproar, upset, wade through, work, work away
Dictionary Results for moil:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
moil
    v 1: work hard; "She was digging away at her math homework";
         "Lexicographers drudge all day long" [syn: labor,
         labour, toil, fag, travail, grind, drudge,
         dig, moil]
    2: be agitated; "the sea was churning in the storm" [syn:
       churn, boil, moil, roil]
    3: moisten or soil; "Her tears moiled the letter"

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Moil \Moil\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Moiled; p. pr. & vb. n.
   Moiling.] [OE. moillen to wet, OF. moillier, muillier, F.
   mouller, fr. (assumed) LL. molliare, fr. L. mollis soft. See
   Mollify.]
   To daub; to make dirty; to soil; to defile.
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         Thou . . . doest thy mind in dirty pleasures moil.
                                                  --Spenser.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Moil \Moil\, v. i. [From Moil to daub; prob. from the idea of
   struggling through the wet.]
   To soil one's self with severe labor; to work with painful
   effort; to labor; to toil; to drudge.
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         Moil not too much under ground.          --Bacon.
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         Now he must moil and drudge for one he loathes.
                                                  --Dryden.
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4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Moil \Moil\, n.
   A spot; a defilement.
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         The moil of death upon them.             --Mrs.
                                                  Browning.
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