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   toils

   /toilz/

   plural

   • 1. used in reference to a situation regarded as a trap: literary "Henry had become caught in the toils of his own deviousness"

   Word Origin early 16th century (denoting a net into which a hunted quarry is driven): plural of toil, from Old French toile ‘net, trap’ (see toile).

   Scrabble Points: 5

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