travail

Speech parts

1. travail - Noun

2. travail - Verb

Meaning

Labor with pain; severe toil or exertion.

Parturition; labor; as, an easy travail.

To labor with pain; to toil.

To suffer the pangs of childbirth; to be in labor.

To harass; to tire.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

effort labor grind exertion toil drudge work labour trial pain struggle suffering dig hardship sweat
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Antonyms

chill out duck wag play rest loaf
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Hypernyms

work labour birth labor birthing toil

Hyponyms

application difficulty struggle exercise trouble pull

Derivatives

travailed travailing

Examples

Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail. Theodore Dreiser

The work of creation is never without travail. T. S. Eliot

But for failing love on our part, therefore is all our travail. Julian of Norwich

Forget not yet the tried intent Of such a truth as I have meant; My great travail so gladly spent, Forget not yet! Thomas Wyatt

An educated person is one who, through the travail of his own life, has assimilated the ideas that make him representative of his culture. Mortimer Adler

It is impossible to read for pleasure from something to which you are both father and mother, born in such travail that the writer despises the thing that enslaved him. Jim Bishop

Close letter words and terms

Trav Travaglia Travaglio travailing travailous travally