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Detailed Synonyms for travail in English

travail:

travail

  1. travail

travail [the ~] noun

  1. the travail
    – use of physical or mental energy; hard work 1
    the effort; the sweat; the exertion; the travail; the elbow grease
    – use of physical or mental energy; hard work 1
  2. the travail
    – concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child 1
    the labour; the labor; the confinement; the childbed; the travail; the lying-in; the parturiency
    – concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child 1

travail verb

  1. travail
    – work hard 1
    labour; to labor; to grind; to dig; to toil; to drudge; travail; fag; moil
    – work hard 1
    • labour verb, British
    • labor verb, American (labors, labored, laboring)
    • grind verb (grinds, ground, grinding)
    • dig verb (digs, dug, digging)
      • She was digging away at her math homework1
    • toil verb (toils, toiled, toiling)
    • drudge verb (drudges, drudged, drudging)
      • Lexicographers drudge all day long1
    • travail verb
    • fag verb
    • moil verb

Alternate Synonyms for "travail":


Related Definitions for "travail":

  1. use of physical or mental energy; hard work1
  2. concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child1
  3. work hard1