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Showing words for TRAVAIL using the English dictionary
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Definitions for Travail
[1] painfully difficult or burdensome work; toil.
[2] pain, anguish or suffering resulting from mental or physical hardship.
[3] the pain of childbirth.
[4] to suffer the pangs of childbirth; be in labor.
[5] to toil or exert oneself.
[6] painful or excessive labour or exertion
[7] the pangs of childbirth; labour
[8] (intr) to suffer or labour painfully, esp in childbirth
Words related to Travail
woe, agony, anguish, tribulation, exertion, stress, distress, work, suffering, labor, drudgery, toil, childbirth, effort, parturition, pains
Words nearby Travail
traumato-, traumatogenic occlusion, traumatology, traumatopnea, trav., travail, travancore, trave, travel, travel agency, travel agent
Origin of Travail
1200–50; (v.) Middle English travaillen < Old French travaillier to torment < Vulgar Latin *trepaliāre to torture, derivative of Late Latin trepālium torture chamber, literally, instrument of torture made with three stakes (see tri-, pale2); (noun) Middle English < Old French: suffering, derivative of travailler
Word origin for Travail
C13: from Old French travaillier , from Vulgar Latin tripaliāre (unattested) to torture, from Late Latin trepālium instrument of torture, from Latin tripālis having three stakes, from trēs three + pālus stake
Synonyms for Travail
agony, anguish, tribulation, woe, childbirth, distress, drudgery, effort, exertion, labor, pains, pangs, parturition, stress, suffering, toil, work