travail
noun
[ ˈtraveɪl ]
• painful or laborious effort.
• "advice for those who wish to save great sorrow and travail"
Similar:
ordeal,
trial,
tribulation,
trials and tribulations,
trouble,
hardship,
privation,
stress,
drudgery,
toil,
slog,
effort,
exertion,
labour,
work,
endeavour,
sweat,
striving,
struggle,
industry,
travail
verb
• engage in painful or laborious effort.
• "creation may travail in pain but it cannot escape its destiny"
Origin:
Middle English: via Old French from medieval Latin trepalium ‘instrument of torture’, from Latin tres ‘three’ + palus ‘stake’.
