Definition of travails Travails
/tɹʌvejˈlz/ - [truveylz] -
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What does travails mean?
Wiktionary 
- travails (Noun)
Plural of travail.
Part of speech
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| travail - use of physical or mental energy; hard work; "he got an A for effort"; "they managed only with great exertion" | ||
| effort, elbow grease, exertion, sweat | ||
| toil, labour, labor productive work (especially physical work done for wages); "his labor did not require a great deal of skill" | ||
| struggle strenuous effort; "the struggle to get through the crowd exhausted her" | ||
| difficulty, trouble the quality of being difficult; "they agreed about the difficulty of the climb" | ||
| least effort, least resistance the least effortful way to do something | ||
| straining, strain an intense or violent exertion | ||
| exercising, physical exercise, physical exertion, workout, exercise the activity of exerting your muscles in various ways to keep fit; "the doctor recommended regular exercise"; "he did some exercising"; "the physical exertion required by his work kept him fit" | ||
| pull the act of pulling; applying force to move something toward or with you; "the pull up the hill had him breathing harder"; "his strenuous pulling strained his back" | ||
| diligence, application conscientiousness in paying proper attention to a task; giving the degree of care required in a given situation | ||
| overkill any effort that seems to go farther than would be necessary to achieve its goal | ||
| supererogation an effort above and beyond the call of duty | ||
| overexertion excessive exertion; so much exertion that discomfort or injury results | ||
| travail - concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child; "she was in labor for six hours" | ||
| parturiency, labor, labour, confinement, lying-in, childbed | ||
| birthing, giving birth, parturition, birth the process of giving birth | ||
| pregnancy, gestation, maternity the state of being pregnant; the period from conception to birth when a woman carries a developing fetus in her uterus | ||
| uterine contraction a rhythmic tightening in labor of the upper uterine musculature that contracts the size of the uterus and pushes the fetus toward the birth canal | ||
| effacement withdrawing into the background; making yourself inconspicuous | ||
| premature labor, premature labour labor beginning prior to the 37th week of gestation | ||
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| travail - work hard; "She was digging away at her math homework"; "Lexicographers drudge all day long" | ||
| labor, labour, toil, fag, grind, drudge, dig, moil | ||
| do work, work arrive at a certain condition through repeated motion; "The stitches of the hem worked loose after she wore the skirt many times" | ||
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Wiktionary
- travail (Noun)
Specifically, the labor of childbirth. - travail (Verb)
To toil. - travail (Verb)
To go through the labor of childbirth.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- travail (n.)
Labor with pain; severe toil or exertion. - travail (n.)
Parturition; labor; as, an easy travail. - travail (n.)
To labor with pain; to toil. - travail (n.)
To suffer the pangs of childbirth; to be in labor. - travail (v. t.)
To harass; to tire.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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travail
trav′āl, n. excessive labour: toil: labour in childbirth.—v.i. to labour: to suffer the pains of childbirth.—p.adj. Trav′eiled (Spens.), toiled. [O. Fr. travail—Low L. travaculum, a shackle—L. trabs, a beam.] -
travail
tra-vā′ye, n. an appliance used among some North American Indians as a means of transporting sick persons, goods, &c.—a kind of litter attached by two poles on each side to a pack-saddle, the other ends trailing on the ground:—pl. Travaux (tra-vō′). [Fr.]
