entoil

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verb

To capture with, or as if with, toils or nets; to ensnare or catch out.

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Meanings

verbentoil (third-person singular simple present entoils, present participle entoiling, simple past and past participle entoiled)

present singular third person entoils · participle present entoiling · participle past entoiled · past entoiled

  1. To capture with, or as if with, toils or nets; to ensnare or catch out.

    It seem'd he never, never could redeem, / From such a stedfast spell his lady's eyes; / So mus'd awhile, entoiled in woofed phantasies.

    1819, John Keats, “The Eve of St. Agnes”, in Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], published 1820, →OCLC, stanza XXXII, page 99

Origin

From en- + toil.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

Nilotelionet
Cite this entry
APA

entoil. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/entoil

MLA

“entoil.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/entoil. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “entoil,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/entoil.

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