travail
noun
painfully difficult or burdensome work; toil.
have travailed
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present perfectof travail.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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I have groaned; I have travailed: I am weary.
From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol. I by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Do not their mothers blush for such; to have travailed so much, and to have achieved so little?
From Woman and Womanhood A Search for Principles by C. W. (Caleb Williams) Saleeby
O earth! we have toil’d, we have travailed: How long shall we travail and toil?
From Reviews by Oscar Wilde
For the rest," he wrote, "when you have travailed and wearied your thoughts on all sorts of worldly cogitations, you shall sit down by sorrow in the end.
From The Glory of English Prose Letters to My Grandson by Stephen Coleridge
For the water-side—where we stand with those for whom we have travailed in soul, when for the first time they publicly confess their faith in Christ—is a sacred place to us.
From Lotus Buds by Amy Carmichael
