Synonyms for travail
trəˈveɪl, ˈtræv eɪltra·vail

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. travail

   Synonyms:
   labor, toil, heaviness, affliction

   Antonyms:
   ease, rest, lightness, joy

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. parturiency, labor, labour, confinement, lying-in, travail, childbednoun

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

   "she was in labor for six hours"

   Synonyms:
   trade union movement, elbow grease, task, proletariat, childbed, labour, effort, project, labor movement, sweat, working class, toil, parturiency, labor, restriction, lying-in, confinement, exertion, undertaking

2. effort, elbow grease, exertion, travail, sweatverb

   use of physical or mental energy; hard work

   "he got an A for effort"; "they managed only with great exertion"

   Synonyms:
   attempt, endeavour, elbow grease, lather, parturiency, exploit, campaign, childbed, feat, drive, labour, effort, sudor, perspiration, movement, try, sweat, fret, stew, cause, labor, swither, lying-in, confinement, crusade, exertion, endeavor

3. labor, labour, toil, fag, travail, grind, drudge, dig, moilverb

   work hard

   "She was digging away at her math homework"; "Lexicographers drudge all day long"

   Synonyms:
   compass, comminute, tug, boil, roil, toil, grind, dig, craunch, drudge, moil, dig up, tire, wear out, poke, cut into, crunch, churn, cranch, jab, grasp, weary, prod, jade, tire out, wear upon, fatigue, delve, get the picture, drive, hollow, stab, apprehend, outwear, comprehend, turn over, excavate, labor, mash, wear down, savvy, push, grok, wear, bray, dig out, grate, fag out, labour

Matched Categories

1. • Parturition

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1. travail

   Synonyms:
   v. n. labor (in childbirth), be in labor, be in travail

2. travailnoun

   Synonyms:
   childbirth, parturition, labor, delivery, bringing forth

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1. List of paraphrases for "travail":

   work, job

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MDRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. travail

   Synonyms:
   Labor (Obstetrics)
   

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How to use travail in a sentence?

1. Werley Nortreus:

   Ne regardez pas seulement le succès de quelqu'un, mais regardez tous les efforts et le travail acharné derrière.

2. Charles de LEUSSE:

   The work trains the youth. I have a start of old age ... (Le travail forme la jeunesse. J'ai un début de vieillesse ...)

3. Charles de LEUSSE:

   a seed and a glove, symbol of his action and his work. (une graine et un gant, symbole de son action et son travail.)”