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What is another word for
travail
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▲
Noun
Painful or laborious effort
An event or situation that causes pain or hardship
The state of being in great mental or physical pain
The process of bearing young
Verb
To apply great and continuous effort
… more ▼
▲
Noun
▲
Painful or laborious effort
toil
labour
UK
effort
labor
US
drudgery
exertion
work
grind
sweat
moil
industry
struggle
pains
endeavour
UK
endeavor
US
trouble
slog
drudge
graft
slavery
strain
striving
donkeywork
fatigue
stress
pain
suffering
tears
pangs
hard work
trials and tribulations
blood, sweat, and tears
elbow grease
application
yakka
chore
blood, sweat and tears
donkey work
energy
hard yakka
expenditure
gruntwork
while
undertaking
diligence
push
toiling
activity
attempt
trial
venture
hard labour
donkey-work
force
exercise
battle
service
menial work
daily grind
enterprise
bother
hardship
try
shot
bid
swink
assay
muscle
crack
stab
sweated labour
pass
fling
bash
go
hard labor
manual labor
hard slog
whack
spadework
resolution
doggedness
whirl
strife
offer
essay
sweat of one's brow
one's all
load
one's level best
adversity
drain
encumbrance
chores
tedium
burden
hassle
occupation
ordeal
problem
industriousness
assiduity
conscientiousness
moonlight
skivvying
operation
test
tribulation
torture
difficulty
millstone
grubwork
agony
tenacity
strength
struggling
labouring
UK
uphill battle
weight
determination
foray
laboring
US
anguish
nightmare
uphill struggle
tough grind
difficult task
tall order
tough assignment
conatus
conation
hard graft
earnestness
best shot
try-on
dry run
challenge
task
employment
grindstone
duty
toils
dirty work
hack work
conflict
drive
slogging
value
slaving
oomph
doing
back-breaking task
painstaking
treadmill
labour of Hercules
drag
salt mines
grit
intensity
heavy labour
UK
pursuit
backbreaking work
crusade
resolve
physical effort
elbow juice
heavy labor
US
nine-to-five
campaign
Herculean task
attempts
resoluteness
steadfastness
movement
power
throes
purpose
discipline
pull
tension
welly
commitment
assiduousness
action
dedication
perseverance
attention
old college try
hard pull
persistence
attentiveness
devotion
backbreaker
intentness
study
workout
plodding
hard
patience
sedulousness
steadiness
endurance
concentration
long haul
deliberation
zeal
tryout
single-mindedness
aim
rat race
menial labour
menial labor
busyness
try on
headache
fuss
grunt work
imposition
deadweight
nuisance
tax
scut work
no picnic
thankless task
difficult project
tirelessness
sedulity
squirrel cage
working day
vigour
UK
rigour
UK
dynamism
productiveness
pertinacity
laboriousness
vigor
US
perseveration
rigorousness
rigor
US
hardworkingness
continuance
more ❯
“He lived to behold the happy fruits of the long, continued
travail
of his soul.”
Noun
▲
An event or situation that causes pain or hardship
trouble
adversity
misfortune
calamity
tribulation
trial
hassle
disaster
hardship
catastrophe
ordeal
accident
mischance
straits
blow
cataclysm
debacle
hitch
misadventure
mishap
mishappening
setback
snag
struggle
tragedy
tumult
unpleasantness
privation
dire straits
bad luck
bad break
torment
distress
affliction
pain
burden
misery
difficulty
problem
torture
suffering
agony
anguish
drag
bummer
grief
curse
excruciation
failure
woe
hurt
worry
cross to bear
stroke of bad luck
ill fortune
trauma
reverse
vexation
downer
headache
albatross
persecution
rack
travails
sorrow
vicissitude
hard time
tough luck
rotten luck
strait
oppression
destitution
heartache
poverty
want
need
austerity
penury
deprivation
wretchedness
discomfort
grievance
inconvenience
beggary
lack
rainy day
hazard
ruination
rigor
US
injury
rigour
UK
bad news
hard knocks
tough break
hot water
unhappiness
anxiety
test
pangs
indigence
damage
detriment
disadvantage
harm
disappointment
fiasco
discouragement
nuisance
difficulties
paroxysm
loss
pest
heartbreak
impoverishment
plague
scourge
nightmare
pains
bane
complication
cross
commotion
ill-treatment
bother
boo-boo
ill
disbenefit
hard luck
jam
pickle
exigency
crunch
pinch
comedown
letdown
annoyance
drama
throes
ill-luck
throe
scrape
unholy mess
ill luck
ticklish spot
can of worms
ill-fortune
holy mess
hard times
sadness
down
dud
reversal of fortune
severe test
big trouble
trying time
bad experience
sad event
neediness
impecuniousness
impecuniosity
hardness
trials
asperity
ruin
danger
drudgery
labor
US
labour
UK
peril
toil
issue
fatigue
Herculean task
trials and tribulations
financial distress
uphill battle
visitation
crucible
care
wronging
double whammy
hard knock
more ❯
“It rode the crest of religious prosperity after World War II, endured the
travail
of the 1960s, and experienced head-on the erosion of the mainline denominations in the late twentieth century.”
Noun
▲
The state of being in great mental or physical pain
pain
distress
misery
torment
affliction
agony
anguish
torture
woe
tribulation
hurt
straits
excruciation
rack
suffering
grief
wretchedness
sorrow
heartbreak
dolor
heartache
unhappiness
worry
anxiety
angst
desolation
despair
sadness
trauma
discomfort
hardship
ordeal
dolour
trouble
pang
dejection
misfortune
trial
cross
blues
despondency
melancholy
depression
ache
gloom
dolefulness
throe
hurting
vexation
difficulty
gloominess
twinge
disquiet
rue
disappointment
headache
malaise
horror
hell
adversity
desperation
purgatory
calamity
doldrums
melancholia
worriment
irritation
problem
dumps
concern
hassle
shock
hell on earth
passion
dispiritedness
burden
stress
cross to bear
low spirits
disconsolateness
sorrowfulness
martyrdom
cheerlessness
mopes
heartsickness
mournfulness
nightmare
Gehenna
murder
strain
bad time
hard time
ill
disease
trials and tribulations
upset
perturbation
hopelessness
ills
bitterness
mourning
grievance
lamentation
infelicity
grieving
bereavement
unconsolability
uneasiness
perplexity
mortification
stew
moroseness
heavy heart
lamenting
crux
condition
plight
disheartenment
letdown
bewailing
listlessness
emotional suffering
moodiness
bemoaning
broken heart
regret
mental suffering
funk
care
disquietude
embarrassment
visitation
shame
resignation
forlornness
discouragement
plague
despondence
dismay
heartbrokenness
bane
resignedness
demoralization
US
miserableness
dreariness
bother
scourge
annoyance
nuisance
joylessness
defeatism
glumness
pessimism
despond
pest
curse
persecution
oppression
demoralisation
UK
dashed hopes
downheartedness
blue devils
irritant
harassment
soreness
nag
nagging
provocation
thorn in the flesh
pain in the bum
pain in the backside
pain in the rear
thorn in your side
pain in the neck
sorriness
dole
calvary
dark night of the soul
disconsolation
heavy-heartedness
bleakness
dismalness
heaviness of heart
broken-heartedness
chagrin
blue funk
dismals
blahs
discontent
woefulness
lament
dissatisfaction
weariness
catatonia
abjection
dejectedness
the blues
pensiveness
remorse
dullness
ennui
negativity
desperateness
the hump
tearfulness
darkness
mopery
misgiving
Weltschmerz
down
weeping
dysphoria
abjectness
anhedonia
megrim
bummer
downer
aching
agitation
disillusionment
shadow
disenchantment
pathos
apathy
sullenness
pall
turmoil
poignancy
discomposure
deploring
displeasure
dysthymia
devastation
foreboding
saturninity
spectre
UK
discontentment
disillusion
somberness
morbidity
heaviness
blackness
downcastness
blight
pining
indifference
repining
cloud
fretfulness
qualm
specter
US
menace
boredom
tedium
lack of enthusiasm
slough of despond
lowness
mulligrubs
mubblefubbles
restlessness
abasement
heavyheartedness
lassitude
the dumps
ill-humor
blue Johnnies
the dismals
the mopes
discord
unrest
strife
distraction
fear
tumult
grimness
scruple
painfulness
loneliness
bale
sombreness
fatalism
bathos
extreme unhappiness
tragedy
unfulfilment
discomfiture
sorrowing
keening
agony of mind
aching heart
bleeding heart
inertia
threat
cold feet
tension
pressure
mope
dourness
sulks
wailing
spinelessness
lack of confidence
tenseness
repentance
chill
dolefuls
wistfulness
the blahs
dread
trepidation
low-spiritedness
a low
shiva
extreme upset
stagnation
stupor
slump
disinterest
sluggishness
lethargy
torpor
inactivity
yawn
being bummed
down trip
megrims
low
loss of confidence
hump
vapors
US
vapours
UK
lugubriosity
troubles
disturbance
moaning
crying
languishing
clinical depression
cynicism
lugubriousness
mirthlessness
lypemania
anger
abyss
hellhole
black mood
frustration
disgruntlement
endogenous depression
infirmity
reactive depression
sickness
illness
ailment
resentment
aggravation
disaffection
discontentedness
disorder
weakness
negativeness
malady
postnatal depression
debility
one's black dog
indisposition
malcontentment
malcontent
fluster
derangement
alarm
feebleness
world-weariness
disarray
disruption
unease
queasiness
negative thinking
decrepitude
unfulfillment
unhealthiness
enervation
sickliness
languor
ruin
infirmness
destruction
undoing
ailments
nemesis
weltschmerz
ruination
evil
downfall
fatal attraction
disaster
bête noire
bête noir
death
bitter pill
more ❯
“One of the worst afflictions to beset any Englishman is the
travail
of having to follow the England team at the World Cup.”
Noun
▲
The process of bearing young
childbirth
parturition
delivery
accouchement
labour
UK
labor
US
childbearing
labor pains
US
labour pains
UK
birth pangs
birthing
confinement
nativity
lying-in
childbed
birth
giving birth
natality
geniture
producing
contractions
bearing
blessed event
conception
nascence
genesis
reproduction
creation
throes
act of God
visit from stork
labour pangs
labour throes
beginning
nascency
expected delivery
child-bearing
delivering
propagation
parturience
procreation
motherhood
pregnancy
gestation
parturiency
bearing children
bringing forth
Caesarian section
visit from the stork
contraction
labour cramps
UK
Braxton Hicks contraction
labor cramps
US
arrival
becoming alive
patter of tiny feet
happy event
gravidness
gravidity
impregnation
germination
fertilization
US
fertilisation
UK
more ❯
“Mary, who had just passed through the agonies of a mother's
travail
, placed the babe in my hands.”
Verb
▲
To apply great and continuous effort
toil
labour
UK
labor
US
struggle
drudge
slave
work
strive
moil
sweat
slog
endeavour
UK
endeavor
US
strain
plod
hustle
plough
UK
plow
US
grind
grub
plug
tug
hump
suffer
beaver away
peg away
bang away
dig away
exert oneself
plug away
work hard
graft
slog away
work like a Trojan
sweat blood
knock oneself out
work like a dog
kill oneself
keep at it
make every effort
bend over backwards
push
go for it
give it your all
try hard
bear down
go all out
bust a gut
drive
persevere
make an effort
apply oneself
grind away
work day and night
work your fingers to the bone
give it your best shot
make an all-out effort
exert yourself
go for broke
rupture yourself
fight
bullock
beaver
pour it on
do your best
break your neck
dig deeper
do your damnedest
slave away
plod away
dig deep
buckle down
knuckle down
hammer away
keep your nose to the grindstone
lean over backwards
grub away
be at pains
pull out all the stops
persist
trudge
scramble
take pains
work oneself to the bone
do all one can
break one's back
keep your head down
do your utmost
spare no effort
jump through hoops
fall over backwards
do one's best
try
essay
endure
lumber
skivvy
muck
stagger
assay
overwork
hammer
grapple
schlepp
peg
apply
press on
purpose
jockey
soldier on
scrabble
get your head down
plough through
put yourself out
move heaven and earth
push yourself
old college try
work one's butt off
work hard to
give something one's best shot
set out
go ham
sweat away
go hard
plug along
plough away
give something one's all
peg along
work at
burn the candle at both ends
work like a slave
drag oneself
push oneself
have a crack
put one's back into something
work one's nuts off
bang on
tend
trail
putter
vie
dig
pound
perform
campaign
withstand
trawl
soldier
exert
work very hard
overwork oneself
wade
stick with it
battle
toll
stand up to
put up a fight against
go to war
peg away at
apply oneself to
keep nose to grindstone
go back to the salt mines
head-down
keep going
carry on
attempt
apply yourself
make a great effort
aspire
aim
continue
work your guts out
go for the doctor
work fingers to bone
strain every nerve
make a supreme effort
push oneself to the limit
try very hard
go all out for
drive oneself to the limit
get down to it
seek
undertake
proceed laboriously
graft away
venture
maintain
put in effort
put effort
plow away
put effort into something
put in work
compete
contend
fight on
push forward
toil on
offer
tackle
have a crack at
shoot for
leave no stone unturned
have a go at
give it a whirl
go the limit
have a stab at
try for
do all you can
take on
go for the jugular
have a go
give your all
take it on oneself
have a shot
footslog
concentrate
drudge away
show dedication
be industrious
show commitment
be diligent
study hard
be assiduous
buckle to
make a run at
put one's back into it
have a shot at
devote yourself
commit oneself
fight your way
make effort
get stuck in
have a stab
give it a fly
use some elbow grease
drive oneself
work one's socks off
have a bash
break sweat
bust chops
do one's darnedest
give all one's got
go hammer and tongs
give best shot
give it a burl
take care
take great pains
have a swing at
try one's hardest
have one's nose to grindstone
acquit oneself
devote
belly up to the bar
get your act together
roll up one's sleeves
shape up
pull up one's socks
persevere with
toil away
persist with
work away
commit
give
go all-out for
keep at
dedicate
pitch in
dig in
grind out
plod along
keep on
trek
empty the tank
go the whole nine yards
go all-out
try my best
address
stumble
kill oneself with
bend
direct
take a stab at
put to the test
embark on
take a whack at
try out
have at it
make an attempt at
keep on with
chip away
plough on with
soldier on with
stick at
work one's socks off on
not cease
front up
lift a finger
make an attempt
chip away at
go for
have a whack
make a pass at
make a bid
go after
vie for
drive for
take a crack at
study
clump
flounder
bumble
blunder
tramp
traipse
do one's durnedest
trog
yomp
schlep
apply to
pull out all stops
give old college try
put one's back in it
put one's shoulder to the wheel
hit the ball
plug away at
battle one's way
move with difficulty
clamber
limp
sputter
be attentive
pay attention
toil away at
make one's way with difficulty
shinny
proceed with difficulty
work through
work one's way
wheel
give it all one has
dive in
roll
roll along
trundle
rattle
overstrain
overextend
overload
overtask
overdrive
work too hard
overtax oneself
overdo it
bite off more than you can chew
wear oneself to a shadow
overload oneself
run yourself into the ground
drive oneself too hard
push oneself too hard
overtax one's strength
strain yourself
overtire yourself
overstrain yourself
drive oneself into the ground
work oneself into the ground
work one's tail off
wear yourself out
overburden oneself
burn out
do too much
work like a horse
burn the midnight oil
drive oneself too far
practice presenteeism
more ❯
“Buddhahood is the state where one continues to
travail
against and defeat the negative conditions of life.”
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