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Answer for the clue "Worked hard ", 6 letters:
moiled

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vb. (en-past of: moil )

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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. Thou . . . doest thy ...

Usage examples of moiled.

He watched the others in their group, and anger moiled in him for that.

Absorbed by its own concerns, the river moiled past little more than an arm's length below the grassy rim of its bank.

So they moiled and clotted, believing that the flames, the blood, the body that had died three years ago and had just now begun to live again, cried out for vengeance, not believing that the rapt infury of the flames and the immobility of the body were both affirmations of an attained bourne beyond the hurt and harm of man.

For a short time the dogs moiled, whimpering, then they set off again, fulltongued, drooling, and dragged and carried the running and cursing men at top speed back to the cabin, where, feet planted and with backflung heads and backrolled eyeballs, they bayed the empty doorway with the passionate abandon of two baritones singing Italian opera.