Thesaurus: travail

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1. n. Labor with pain; severe toil or exertion.
2. n. Parturition; labor; as, an easy travail.
3. n. To labor with pain; to toil.
4. n. To suffer the pangs of childbirth; to be in labor.
5. v. t. To harass; to tire.
6. n. concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child
7. n. use of physical or mental energy; hard work
8. v. work hard
9. 1. Labor with pain; severe toil or exertion. As everything of price, so this doth require travail. Hooker. 2. Parturition; labor; as, an easy travail. 1. To labor with pain; to toil. [Archaic] "Slothful persons which will not travail for their livings." Latimer. 2. To suffer the pangs of childbirth; to be in labor. To harass; to tire. [Obs.] As if all these troubles had not been sufficient to travail the realm, a great division fell among the nobility. Hayward.
10. To harass; to tire. [Obs.]As if all these troubles had not been sufficient to travail therealm, a great division fell among the nobility. Hayward.
11. v:6/n:94 n concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child n use of physical or mental energy; hard work v work hard