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Travail
01
hard or painful work
Grammatical Information
Animacy status
Abstract
Composition
Simple
Uncountable
Plural form
travails
Examples
The artist 's masterpiece was the result of years of hard travail.
02
the suffering endured during the process of labor and delivery
Examples
She cried out in travail as the contractions grew stronger.
to travail
01
to work hard, often under challenging conditions
Intransitive
Grammatical Information
Composition
Simple
Action verb
Regular
Present tense
travail
3rd person singular
travails
Present participle
travailing
Past simple
travailed
Past participle
travailed
Examples
The farmers travailed from dawn until dusk to bring in the harvest.
