travail
Meaning of travail
noun
- painful or laborious effort.
advice for those who wish to save great sorrow and travail
- engage in painful or laborious effort.
creation may travail in pain but it cannot escape its destiny
Middle English: via Old French from medieval Latin trepalium ‘instrument of torture’, from Latin tres ‘three’ + palus ‘stake’.
Information about travail
- The plural form of travail is: travails.
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Hyphenation of travail
tra-vail
- It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
- travail is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
travail synonyms
Meaning parturiency:
parturiency, labor, confinement, childbed
Meaning effort:
Meaning labor:
labor, toil, fag, grind, drudge, dig, moil
Meaning a very unpleasant and prolonged experience:
Meaning a formal examination of evidence by a judge, typically before a jury, in order to decide guilt in a case of criminal or civil proceedings:
Meaning a cause of great trouble or suffering:
Meaning difficulty or problems:
Meaning severe suffering or privation:
Meaning a state in which food and other essentials for well-being are lacking:
Meaning pressure or tension exerted on a material object:
Meaning hard menial or dull work:
Meaning a spell of difficult, tiring work or travelling:
Meaning activity involving mental or physical effort done in order to achieve a purpose or result:
Meaning earnest, prolonged, and industrious effort:
Meaning make great efforts to achieve or obtain something:
Meaning a forceful or violent effort to get free of restraint or resist attack:
Meaning economic activity concerned with the processing of raw materials and manufacture of goods in factories:
Words that rhyme with travail
Vail, vail, avail, disavail, fortravail, paravail, reavail, prevail, unvail, countervail, mervail, Oruvail, oruvail
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