They finally succeeded after many months of travail.
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Travail
//tɹəˈveɪl//
Synonyms for "travail" (125 found)
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24 translations across 10 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- مَخَاض noun (labor of childbirth)
Armenian
1 entries- երկունք noun (labor of childbirth)
Bulgarian
2 entries- родилни мъки noun (labor of childbirth)
- тежък труд noun (hard work)
Catalan
2 entries- part noun (labor of childbirth)
- tribulació noun (hard work)
Czech
4 entries- dřina noun (hard work)
- lopota noun (hard work)
- námaha noun (hard work)
- porod noun (labor of childbirth)
French
4 entries- labeur noun (hard work)
- travail noun (hard work)
- travail noun (labor of childbirth)
- peiner verb (to toil)
Galician
1 entries- traballo noun (hard work)
Norwegian
1 entries- slit noun (hard work)
Old Armenian
1 entries- երկն noun (labor of childbirth)
Polish
4 entries- harówka noun (hard work)
- poród noun (labor of childbirth)
- harować verb (to toil)
- rodzić verb (go through the labor of childbirth)
Sample sentences
18 total sentences available.
"I, torn from burning Troy o'er many a wave, / endured the lust of Pyrrhus and his pride, / and knew a mother's travail as his slave. / Fired with Hermione, a Spartan bride, / me, joined in bed and bondage, he allied / to Helenus."
Source: tatoeba (7050778)
And going forth from thence, he came in the spring time to the land which leadeth to Ephrata: wherein when Rachel was in travail, by reason of her hard labour, she began to be in danger, and the midwife said to her: Fear not, for thou shalt have this son also.
Source: tatoeba (7866339)
Great trauail is created to al men, and an heauie yoke vpon the children of Adam, from the day of their comming forth of their mothers wombe, vntil the day of their burying, into the mother of al. […]
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