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Travail
01
hard or painful work
Examples
The artist 's masterpiece was the result of years of hard travail.
She faced significant travail in her journey to becoming a successful entrepreneur.
02
the suffering endured during the process of labor and delivery
Examples
She cried out in travail as the contractions grew stronger.
The midwife comforted her through the long hours of travail.
to travail
01
to work hard, often under challenging conditions
Intransitive
Examples
The farmers travailed from dawn until dusk to bring in the harvest.
She travailed for years to complete her groundbreaking research.
