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.
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
The priest having read the text as chance might lead him, read the vespers for Sunday;—and you must know he travailed hard, that the offerings should be worth something to him.
From Flowers from a Persian Garden and Other Papers by William Alexander Clouston
