travail
noun
painfully difficult or burdensome work; toil.
is travailing
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present progressiveof travail (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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They know themselves re-born in soul, and are dimly aware that the world is travailing toward new birth with them.
From Carry On Letters in War-Time by Coningsby Dawson
