travail

Definition of Travail in English :

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Noun

1. childbed, confinement, labor, labour, lying-in, parturiency, travail

concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child

Example Sentences:
'she was in labor for six hours'

2. effort, elbow grease, exertion, sweat, travail

use of physical or mental energy; hard work

Example Sentences:
'he got an A for effort'
'they managed only with great exertion'

Verb

3. dig, drudge, fag, grind, labor, labour, moil, toil, travail

work hard

Example Sentences:
'She was digging away at her math homework'
'Lexicographers drudge all day long'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Travail

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noun

1.

painful or excessive labour or exertion

2.

the pangs of childbirth; labour

verb

3. (intransitive)

to suffer or labour painfully, esp in childbirth

Travail

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noun

1.

very hard work; toil

2.

labor pains; pains of childbirth

3.

intense pain; agony

verb intransitive

4.

to work very hard; toil

5.

to have labor pains; suffer the pains of childbirth

Travail

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n.

1. Work, especially when arduous or involving painful effort; toil. See Synonyms at work.

2. Tribulation or agony; anguish.

3. The labor of childbirth.

intr.v. tra·vailed, tra·vail·ing, tra·vails

1. To work strenuously; toil.

2. To be in the labor of childbirth.

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