Travail can be categorized as a noun and a verb.
Verb |
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| travail - work hard; "She was digging away at her math homework"; "Lexicographers drudge all day long" | ||
Noun |
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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" | ||
| travail - concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child; "she was in labor for six hours" |
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| 1. | noun | They finally succeeded after many months of travail. | |
| 2. | noun | "I, torn from burning Troy o'er many a wave, / endured the lust of Pyrrhus and his pride, / and knew a mother's travail as his slave. / Fired with Hermione, a Spartan bride, / me, joined in bed and bondage, he allied / to Helenus." | |
| 3. | noun | And going forth from thence, he came in the spring time to the land which leadeth to Ephrata: wherein when Rachel was in travail, by reason of her hard labour, she began to be in danger, and the midwife said to her: Fear not, for thou shalt have this son also. |
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| They finally succeeded after many months of travail. | |
| "I, torn from burning Troy o'er many a wave, / endured the lust of Pyrrhus and his pride, / and knew a mother's travail as his slave. / Fired with Hermione, a Spartan bride, / me, joined in bed and bondage, he allied / to Helenus." | |
| And going forth from thence, he came in the spring time to the land which leadeth to Ephrata: wherein when Rachel was in travail, by reason of her hard labour, she began to be in danger, and the midwife said to her: Fear not, for thou shalt have this son also. | |