Travail word meaning and definition
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Meaning and definition for "travail" word
[noun] concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of labor to the birth of a child; "she was in labor for six hours"
[verb] work hard; "She was digging away at her math homework"; "Lexicographers drudge all day long"
\Trav"ail\ (?; 48), n. [F. travail; cf. Pr. trabalh, trebalh, toil, torment, torture; probably from LL. trepalium a place where criminals are tortured, instrument of torture. But the French word may be akin to L. trabs a beam, or have been influenced by a derivative from trabs (cf. {Trave}). Cf. {Travel}.] 1. Labor with pain; severe toil or exertion. As everything of price, so this doth require travail. --Hooker. 2. Parturition; labor; as, an easy travail.
\Trav"ail\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Travailed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Travailing}.] [F. travailler, OF. traveillier, travaillier, to labor, toil, torment; cf. Pr. trebalhar to torment, agitate. See {Travail}, n.] 1. To labor with pain; to toil. [Archaic] ``Slothful persons which will not travail for their livings.'' --Latimer. 2. To suffer the pangs of childbirth; to be in labor.
\Trav"ail\, v. t. To harass; to tire. [Obs.] As if all these troubles had not been sufficient to travail the realm, a great division fell among the nobility. --Hayward.
Synonyms for travail
childbed, confinement, dig, drudge, effort, elbow grease, exertion, fag, grind, labor, labor, labour, labour, lying-in, moil, parturiency, sweat, toil
See also: application | asynclitism | birth | birthing | detrition | difficulty | diligence | do work | effacement | exercise | exercising | friction | gestation | giving birth | labor | labour | least effort | least resistance | obliquity | overexertion | overkill | parturition | physical exercise | physical exertion | pregnancy | premature labor | premature labour | pull | rubbing | strain | straining | struggle | supererogation | toil | trouble | uterine contraction | work | workout |
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Let's analyse "travail" as pure text. This string has Seven letters in Two syllables and Three vowels. 42.9% of vowels is 4.3% more then average English word. Written in backwards: LIAVART. Average typing speed for these characters is 1930 milliseconds. [info]
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Numerology Hearts desire number calculated from vowels:
travail: 1 + 1 + 9 = 11, reduced: 11 . and the final result is Eleven. |
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