travail

[TravĀ·ail]

To harass; to tire.

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Labor with pain; severe toil or exertion.

Noun
use of physical or mental energy; hard work; "he got an A for effort"; "they managed only with great exertion"

Noun
concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of labor to the birth of a child; "she was in labor for six hours"

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


n.
Labor with pain; severe toil or exertion.

n.
Parturition; labor; as, an easy travail.

n.
To labor with pain; to toil.

n.
To suffer the pangs of childbirth; to be in labor.

v. t.
To harass; to tire.


Travail

Trav"ail (?; 48), n. [F. travail; cf. Pr. trabalh, trebalh, toil, torment, torture; probably from LL. trepalium a place where criminals are tortured, instrument of torture. But the French word may be akin to L. trabs a beam, or have been influenced by a derivative from trabs (cf. Trave). Cf. Travel.] 1. Labor with pain; severe toil or exertion.
As everything of price, so this doth require travail.
2. Parturition; labor; as, an easy travail.

Travail

Trav"ail, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Travailed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Travailing.] [F. travailler, OF. traveillier, travaillier, to labor, toil, torment; cf. Pr. trebalhar to torment, agitate. See Travail, n.] 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.

Travail

Trav"ail, v. t 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.

Labor with pain; severe toil or exertion.

To labor with pain; to toil.

To harass; to tire.

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Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.

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