Dictionary Entry

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

1noun
Labor with pain; severe toil or exertion.
2noun
Parturition; labor; as, an easy travail.
3noun
To labor with pain; to toil.
4noun
To suffer the pangs of childbirth; to be in labor.
5transitive verb
To harass; to tire.
6noun
use of physical or mental energy; hard work
"he got an A for effort"
"they managed only with great exertion"
Synonyms
effort exertion sweat
7noun
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
8verb
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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