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travail
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travail
v.
work hard, toil; suffer from pains of childbirth
n.
difficult work, labor; intense pains of childbirth; suffering caused by hardship
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Travail
Travail may refer to:
- Travail (band), an American Christian nu-metal band, and the title of its 1999 album
- Travail (film), a 2002 Japanese film
- Travail, a 1901 novel by Émile Zola
- Labour/Le Travail, a Canadian academic journal, published since 1976
- Le Travail-Le Droit du Peuple, two French language newspapers in Switzerland, published from 1917 to 1940
- Le Travail Movement, an anti-colonialism movement in Vietnam from September 1936 to April 1937
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travail
Noun
1. concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of labor to the birth of a child; "she was in labor for six hours"
(synonym) parturiency, labor, labour, confinement, lying-in, childbed
(hypernym) parturition, birth, giving birth, birthing
(hyponym) premature labor, premature labour
(part-holonym) pregnancy, gestation, maternity
(part-meronym) uterine contraction
2. use of physical or mental energy; hard work; "he got an A for effort"; "they managed only with great exertion"
(synonym) effort, elbow grease, exertion, sweat
(hypernym) labor, labour, toil
(hyponym) struggle
(derivation) labor, labour, toil, fag, grind, drudge, dig, moil
Verb
1. work hard; "She was digging away at her math homework"; "Lexicographers drudge all day long"
(synonym) labor, labour, toil, fag, grind, drudge, dig, moil
(hypernym) work, do work
(derivation) effort, elbow grease, exertion, sweat
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travail
nm.
work, labor; occupation, task, engagement; business, place; pursuit, working, game
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Travail
(v. t.)
To harass; to tire.
To harass; to tire.
(n.)
To suffer the pangs of childbirth; to be in labor.
To suffer the pangs of childbirth; to be in labor.
(n.)
To labor with pain; to toil.
To labor with pain; to toil.
(n.)
Parturition; labor; as, an easy travail.
Parturition; labor; as, an easy travail.
(n.)
Labor with pain; severe toil or exertion.
Labor with pain; severe toil or exertion.
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