toil vs grind

toil and grind both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
toil	Yes	No	Yes	No
grind	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, grind is a hyponym of toil; that is, grind is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than toil:

As verbs, toil and grind are synonyms defined as:

Other synonyms of toil include dig, drudge, fag, labor, labour, moil, travail.

toil (noun)	grind (noun)
productive work (especially physical work done for wages)	the act of grinding to a powder or dust
	hard monotonous routine work
	the grade of particle fineness to which a substance is ground
	an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or boringly studious

toil (verb)	grind (verb)
work hard	reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading
	make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together
	press or grind with a crushing noise
	shape or form by grinding
	created by grinding
	dance by rotating the pelvis in an erotically suggestive way, often while in contact with one's partner such that the dancers' legs are interlaced
	work hard