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travailnoun a state of great suffering of body or mindno greater travail than that of parents who have suffered the death of a child affliction, agony, anguish, distress, excruciation, hurt, misery, pain, rack, strait(s), torment, torture, tribulation, woe discomfortcross, crucible, trialheartache, heartbreak, joylessness, sadness, sorrow, unhappinessemergency, pinchasperity, difficulty, hardship, rigorache, pang, smarting, soreness, stitch, throe, twingedanger, jeopardy, trouble comfort, consolation, solacealleviation, assuagement, ease, reliefpeace, securitywell-being very hard or unpleasant workthese villagers now have decent housing, so our travail has not been in vain donkeywork, drudge, drudgery, fatigue, grind, labor, moil, slavery, sweat, toil spadeworkeffort, exertion, pains, struggle, troublechore, duty, job, obligation, responsibilityroutine, tedium, treadmill fun, play decompression, ease, leisure, relaxation, repose, restamusement, dalliance, diversion, entertainment, recreation, sportdormancy, idleness, inactivity, inertia, inertnessdallying, goldbricking, loafing, lolling, lounging the act or process of giving birth to childrena midwife assisted her throughout her long travail accouchement, childbearing, childbirth, delivery, labor, parturition birth pang, contraction, painspregnancyabortion, miscarriagecesarean section(or caesarean section), natural childbirthchildbed, confinement, lying-in to devote serious and sustained effortLabor Day is the day on which we recognize those men and women who daily travail with little appreciation or compensation bang away, beaver (away), dig (away), drudge, endeavor, fag, grub, hump, hustle, labor, moil, peg (away), plod, plow, plug, slave, slog, strain, strive, struggle, sweat, toil, tug, work apply (oneself), buckle (down), dig in, hammer (away), knuckle down, pitch inattack, driveessay, tryexercise, exert, overexert, overworkeke out, grind (out), put out, scrabble, scratchtrudge, wade sweat blood break, ease (up), let up, slackenbum, chill, dally, dillydally, footle, goldbrick, goof (off), hack (around), hang (around or out), idle, laze, loaf, lounge, shirk, slack (off), veg outbask, loll, relax, repose, rest, unwinddabble, doodle, fool around, fribble, goof (around), hang, hang about(British), mess around, monkey (around), play, potter (around), putter (around), trifle n.work, labor, travail, toil, drudgery, grind mean activity involving effort or exertion.work may imply activity of body, of mind, of a machine, or of a natural force.too tired to do any work labor applies to physical or intellectual work involving great and often strenuous exertion.farmers demanding fair compensation for their labor travail is bookish for labor involving pain or suffering.years of travail were lost when the house burned toil implies prolonged and fatiguing labor.his lot would be years of back-breaking toil drudgery suggests dull and irksome labor.an editorial job with a good deal of drudgery grind implies labor exhausting to mind or body.the grind of the assembly line in the 13th century |