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Travail
01
hard or painful work
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
Examples
The farmers travailed from dawn until dusk to bring in the harvest.
