travail English

Meaning travail meaning

What does travail mean?

travail

— noun (= effort, exertion) use of physical or mental energy; hard work he got an A for effort they managed only with great exertion

— verb (= drudge, dig) work hard She was digging away at her math homework Lexicographers drudge all day long

— noun (= labor, labour) concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child she was in labor for six hours

Synonyms travail synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as travail?

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labour

labor

toil

fag

exertion

drudge

work

struggle

parturiency

moil

labour pain

elbow grease

effort

childbed

trouble

sweat

suffering

parturition

lying-in

grind

dig

confinement

work hard

vice

torment

throes

task

suffer

striving

sorrow

service

plug

plodding

pains of childbirth

pains

painful

pain

onus

obstetrical delivery

nisus

labor pains

have a hard time of it

giving birth

endeavor

encumbrance

drudgery

donkeywork

delivery

childbirth

care