travail
noun
painfully difficult or burdensome work; toil.
has travailed
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present perfectof travail (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Since Adam and Eve went hand in hand out of the gates of Paradise, the world has travailed under an infinite succession of house-hunts.
From Certain Personal Matters by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
Listen, O people, over whom my heart yearns, as the heart of a mother over the children she has travailed for!
From Romola by George Eliot
