Travail

Word TRAVAIL
Character 7
Hyphenation trav ail tra vail
Pronunciations /tɹəˈveɪl/

Definitions and meanings of "Travail"

What do we mean by travail?

Work, especially when arduous or involving painful effort; toil. synonym: work. noun

Tribulation or agony; anguish. noun

The labor of childbirth. noun

To work strenuously; toil. intransitive verb

To be in the labor of childbirth. intransitive verb

To labor; toil; travel: same as travel, 1.

To labor in childbed; suffer the pangs of childbirth; be parturient.

Labor; toil; travel: same as travel, 1. noun

Labor in childbed; parturition. noun

A means of transportation, commonly used by North American Indians and voyageurs of the north and northwest, for the conveyance of goods or of sick or wounded persons. noun

Same as travois. noun

Labor with pain; severe toil or exertion. noun

Parturition; labor. noun

To harass; to tire. transitive verb

To labor with pain; to toil. intransitive verb

To suffer the pangs of childbirth; to be in labor. intransitive verb

Obsolete form of travel. noun

To toil. verb

To go through the labor of childbirth. verb

Concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child noun

Arduous or painful exertion; excessive labor, suffering, hardship.

Specifically, the labor of childbirth.

An act of working; labor (US), labour (British).

The eclipse of a celestial object.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Travail

The word "travail" in example sentences

And if thou beest _in travail_, and punishest thy body reasonably and wisely, by wakings, fastings, and in prayers and meditations, and sufferest heat and cold, hunger and thirst, privation and anguish for the love of JESUS Christ; for this travail thou shalt come to rest that lasts aye, and sit on a settle of joy with angels. ❋ Richard Rolle (1901)

The word travel, you'll recall, is derived from the word travail, which itself is derived from a word for an instrument of torture. ❋ Wayne Curtis (2011)

It is an allusion to a woman in travail, that is pained to be delivered, and welcomes her pains, because they hasten the birth of the child, and wishes them sharp and strong, that the work may be cut short. ❋ Unknown (1721)

The great travail is over, my friends, and I am back on top of my game. ❋ Big Jim (2008)

So he said to himself, By Allah, all my travail is lost! ❋ Unknown (2006)

Each morn that dawns I wake in travail and in woe, ❋ Unknown (2006)

Chaldees, when they come on thee suddenly, as pangs on a woman in travail (Jer 6: 24)! ❋ Unknown (1871)

If there had been any common humanity among them, they would not have turned a woman in travail into a stable. ❋ Unknown (1721)

Thus he illustrates by a similitude taken from a woman in travail, to whose sorrows he compares those of his disciples, for their encouragement; for it is the will of Christ that his people should be a comforted people. ❋ Unknown (1721)

It is like the voice of a woman in travail, whose pain is exquisite, and the fruit of sin and the curse too (Gen.iii. 16), and exhorts lamentable outcries, especially of a woman in travail of her first child, who, having never known before what that pain is, is the more terrified by it. ❋ Unknown (1721)

This travail is given to us to make us weary of the world and desirous of the remaining rest. ❋ Unknown (1721)

Present receivings and comforts are consistent with a great many groans; not as the pangs of one dying, but as the throes of a woman in travail -- groans that are symptoms of life, not of death. ❋ Unknown (1721)

Our Lord Jesus was in travail of soul for our redemption and salvation, in great pain, but with longing desire to be delivered, and all the pains and throes he underwent were in order to it and hastened it on. ❋ Unknown (1721)

Rachel had her heart much set upon children: the son she died in travail of she called ❋ Unknown (1721)

That these wounds and bruises, though they are painful, may not be mortal, Christ was wounded for our transgressions, was tormented or pained (the word is used for the pains of a woman in travail) for our revolts and rebellions. ❋ Unknown (1721)

As in travail, crying out, and pained to be delivered. ❋ Unknown (1721)

No more than a woman in travail, full of pains and fears, can take comfort in her ornaments while she is in that condition. ❋ Unknown (1721)

Were the child which the mother is in travail of capable of understanding its own case, we should reckon it an unwise child that would choose to stay long in the birth; for the captive exile hasteth to be loosed, lest he die in the pit, Isa. li. ❋ Unknown (1721)

Shall not sorrows take thee as a woman in travail? ❋ Unknown (1721)

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