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List of meaning for travail

to work hard or with a great deal of effort

parturiency, labor, labour, confinement, lying-in, travail, childbed(noun)

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

"she was in labor for six hours"

effort, elbow grease, exertion, travail, sweat(verb)

use of physical or mental energy; hard work

"he got an A for effort"; "they managed only with great exertion"

labor, labour, toil, fag, travail, grind, drudge, dig, moil(verb)

work hard

"She was digging away at her math homework"; "Lexicographers drudge all day long"

a state of great suffering of body or mind

no greater travail than that of parents who have suffered the death of a child

very hard or unpleasant work

these villagers now have decent housing, so our travail has not been in vain

the act or process of giving birth to children

a midwife assisted her throughout her long travail

to devote serious and sustained effort

Labor Day is the day on which we recognize those men and women who daily travail with little appreciation or compensation

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