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/tɹəˈveɪl/ · noun
(literary) Arduous or painful exertion; excessive labor, suffering, hardship..
Great trauail is created to al men, and an heauie yoke vpon the children of Adam, from the day of their comming forth of their mothers wombe, vntil the day of their burying, into the mother of al. […]
But as every thing of price, so this doth require travail.
Travell and pleasure, most unlike in nature, are notwithstanding followed together by a kind of I wot not what natural conjunction[…].
But I know that to-day there are great questions calling for an answer, wrongs clamoring to be righted, a people in travail that pleads for ease!
He had thought of making a destiny for himself, through laborious and untiring travail.
"Machine Madness" details the travails Rocko endures as he gets sucked into an infomercial and tries to find the perfect mail-order vacuum-cleaner, attempts to return from the laundromat with all of his socks, and finds creative ways to take out the garbage.
And the British mandarin Left, like their contemporaries in the Foreign Office, had little time for the travails of the small countries between Germany and Russia, whom they had always regarded as something of a nuisance.
In the most egregious examples, these stories harness a particular woman’s travails without acknowledging the systems and forces that contributed to her treatment and how these systems persist in our own time.
Use travail when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Travail means (literary) Arduous or painful exertion; excessive labor, suffering, hardship..
Common synonyms include toil, tribulation, ordeal, exertion.
Possible antonyms include ease, leisure.
Great trauail is created to al men, and an heauie yoke vpon the children of Adam, from the day of their comming forth of their mothers wombe, vntil the day of their burying, into the mother of al. […]
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