Travail

['træveɪl] or ['trævel]

Definition

(n.) Labor with pain; severe toil or exertion.

(n.) Parturition; labor; as, an easy travail.

(n.) To labor with pain; to toil.

(n.) To suffer the pangs of childbirth; to be in labor.

(v. t.) To harass; to tire.

Checker: Louie

Synonyms and Synonymous

v. n. Labor (in childbirth), be in labor, be in travail.

n. Childbirth, parturition, labor, delivery, bringing forth.

Editor: Ronda

Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Labor, toil, heaviness, affliction

ANT:Ease, rest, lightness, joy

Edited by Cathryn

Definition

n. an appliance used among some North American Indians as a means of transporting sick persons goods &c.—a kind of litter attached by two poles on each side to a pack-saddle the other ends trailing on the ground:—pl. Travaux (tra-vō′).

n. excessive labour: toil: labour in childbirth.—v.i. to labour: to suffer the pains of childbirth.—p.adj. Trav′eiled (Spens.) toiled.

Typist: Ora