travail
noun
painfully difficult or burdensome work; toil.
travailed
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past participleof travail.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof travail.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
travailnounpainfully difficult or burdensome work; toil.
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English translations of the Bible often use it in this context, such as in Isaiah 66:7: “Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was delivered of a man child.”
From Washington Post ● Oct. 10, 2020
It be like knowing you are what praying women had in mind when they travailed for tomorrow.
From "Watch Us Rise" by Renée Watson and Ellen Hagan
The ancient alchemists travailed to transmute the baser metals into gold; in these days whole townships are at work transmuting gold and silver into pewter.
From Greene Ferne Farm by Richard Jefferies
How much he hath laboured and travailed therein he hath sufficiently declared and showed in his acts and proceedings.
From The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3) by James Anthony Froude
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
