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- Dictionarytravail/ˈtraveɪl/
noun
- 1. painful or laborious effort: "advice for those who wish to save great sorrow and travail"
verb
- 1. engage in painful or laborious effort: "creation may travail in pain but it cannot escape its destiny"
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Travail is a noun meaning work, especially of a painful or laborious nature, or a verb meaning to labor hard. Learn its synonyms, etymology, examples, and related words from the Merriam-Webster dictionary.
Travail is a noun that means an unpleasant experience or situation, especially one that involves a lot of hard work or effort. Learn how to use travail in sentences and see synonyms, antonyms and translations.
Travail definition: painfully difficult or burdensome work; toil.. See examples of TRAVAIL used in a sentence.
The closest English word is probably toil, though travail means you’re not just exerting monumental effort but suffering as you do so. If your life has been hard-knock enough to be the stuff of old blues songs or Shakespearean tragedies, you’ve had your share of travails.
Travail is a noun that means an unpleasant experience or situation, especially one that involves a lot of hard work or effort. Learn how to use travail in a sentence, see synonyms and antonyms, and find out how to say travail in different languages.
Travail means unpleasant hard work or difficult problems, or the pangs of childbirth. It can also be a verb meaning to suffer or labour painfully. See synonyms, pronunciation, examples and word origin.
Travail means hard or painful work, suffering, or childbirth. Find out the origin, usage, and examples of travail in different contexts and languages.
