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travail
Synonyms and Antonyms of travail
- no greater travail than that of parents who have suffered the death of a child
affliction, agony, anguish, distress, excruciation, hurt, misery, pain, rack, strait(s), torment, torture, tribulation, woe
- these villagers now have decent housing, so our travail has not been in vain
- a midwife assisted her throughout her long travail
Synonym Discussion of travail
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- too tired to do any work
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- farmers demanding fair compensation for their labor
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- years of travail were lost when the house burned
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- his lot would be years of back-breaking toil
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- an editorial job with a good deal of drudgery
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- the grind of the assembly line
travail
Synonyms and Antonyms of travail
- Labor Day is the day on which we recognize those men and women who daily travail with little appreciation or compensation
break, ease (up), let up, slacken
bum, chill, dally, dillydally, footle, goldbrick, goof (off), hack (around), hang (around or out), idle, laze, loaf, lounge, shirk, slack (off), veg out
bask, loll, relax, repose, rest, unwind
dabble, doodle, fool around, fribble, goof (around), hang, hang about [British], mess around, monkey (around), play, potter (around), putter (around), trifle
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