Synonyms of travailed

travailed

verb

past tense of travail

as in labored

to devote serious and sustained effort

Labor Day is the day on which we recognize those men and women who daily travail with little appreciation or compensation

Synonyms & Similar Words

• labored
• struggled
• worked
• endeavored
• toiled
• tried
• tugged
• dug (away)
• plowed
• strove
• drudged
• hustled
• pegged (away)
• grubbed
• slaved
• humped
• sweat
• plodded
• fagged
• slogged
• plugged
• strained
• banged away
• moiled
• applied (oneself)
• attacked
• essayed
• dug in
• exerted
• beavered (away)
• hammered (away)
• sweat blood
• pitched in
• drove
• buckled (down)
• scratched
• exercised
• waded
• trudged
• eked out
• overworked
• scrabbled
• knuckled down
• ground (out)
• overexerted
• put out

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• eased (up)
• broke
• slackened
• let up
• hung (around or out)
• rested
• chilled
• shirked
• idled
• lounged
• lazed
• dallied
• loafed
• hacked (around)
• bummed
• relaxed
• basked
• slacked (off)
• reposed
• played
• goofed (off)
• lolled
• hung
• unwound
• trifled
• dabbled
• footled
• vegged out
• goldbricked
• dillydallied
• messed around
• fooled around
• puttered (around)
• doodled
• hung about
• pottered (around)
• goofed (around)
• monkeyed (around)
• fribbled