Travails

Synonyms for "travails" (16 found)

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Closest matches (4)

Strong matches (4)

Noun(4 words)
hardshipslaborto endureto endure hardship

Related words (8)

Noun(8 words)
to laborto persevereto striveto sufferto suffer adversityto toiltoiltroubles

Related word relations

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More general

9 entries
adverse experiencedifficultygoal oriented workhardshiplaborlabor verbpurposeful activitysufferingwork

More specific

13 entries
continuous efforteconomic hardshipexertionlong ordeallong range endeavorobstacleprolonged distresssetbacksustained endeavorto laborto striveto toiltoil

Collocations

12 entries
academic travailsbureaucratic travailsdramatic travailsenduring travailsfinancial travailsgreat travailheavy travailseasonal travailsthrough travailtoil and travailtravails throughtravails with

Inflections

2 entries

Derivations

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Sample sentences

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Tatoeba + Wiktionary

Meanwhile, physicians who work in Africa, the Middle East and Asia, continue giving testimony about the travails of people who desperately want help. They talk about sickly, frail people walking for miles through war zones, through crocodile-infested waters, through monsoons, to clinics where there may or may not be the treatment they need.

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