travail

travail is a 7-letter English word with 8 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Labor with pain; severe toil or exertion. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 12 · 8 senses

Definitions

1. noun. Labor with pain; severe toil or exertion.
2. noun. Parturition; labor; as, an easy travail.
3. noun. To labor with pain; to toil.
4. noun. To suffer the pangs of childbirth; to be in labor.
5. transitive verb. To harass; to tire.
6. noun. use of physical or mental energy; hard work

   "he got an A for effort"

   "they managed only with great exertion"

   Synonyms: effort, exertion, sweat

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

   "she was in labor for six hours"

   Synonyms: childbed, confinement, labor, labour, parturiency

8. verb. work hard

   "She was digging away at her math homework"

   "Lexicographers drudge all day long"

   Synonyms: dig, drudge, fag, grind, labor, labour, moil, toil

Synonyms

effort, exertion, sweat, childbed, confinement, labor, labour, parturiency, dig, drudge, fag, grind, moil, toil

Common word forms

travails, travailed, travailer, travailing, travailous

Words from these letters

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