Synonyms of travails

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noun

plural of travail

1

as in pains

a state of great suffering of body or mind

no greater travail than that of parents who have suffered the death of a child

Synonyms & Similar Words

• pains
• distresses
• agonies
• miseries
• anguishes
• tribulations
• woes
• torments
• tortures
• straits
• sorrows
• pangs
• discomforts
• hurts
• hardships
• afflictions
• racks
• dangers
• heartbreaks
• troubles
• heartaches
• difficulties
• excruciations
• emergencies
• aches
• trials
• rigors
• crucibles
• throes
• crosses
• asperities
• stitches
• jeopardies
• pinches
• twinges

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• consolations
• comforts
• solaces
• alleviations
• eases
• reliefs
• assuagements
• securities
• peaces
• well-beings

2

as in efforts

very hard or unpleasant work

these villagers now have decent housing, so our travail has not been in vain

Synonyms & Similar Words

• efforts
• labors
• toils
• pains
• struggles
• fatigues
• sweats
• exertions
• troubles
• drudgeries
• grinds
• slaveries
• drudges
• responsibilities
• donkeyworks
• moils
• obligations
• duties
• jobs
• chores
• spadeworks
• treadmills
• routines
• tediums

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• plays
• fun
• relaxations
• eases
• sports
• rests
• dalliances
• reposes
• amusements
• diversions
• entertainments
• recreations
• leisures
• inertias
• decompressions
• inactivities
• dormancies

3

as in childbirths

the act or process of giving birth to children

a midwife assisted her throughout her long travail

Synonyms & Similar Words

• childbirths
• pregnancies
• deliveries
• pains
• labors
• miscarriages
• abortions
• accouchements
• contractions
• parturitions
• childbearings
• birth pangs
• confinements
• caesarean sections
• cesarean sections
• natural childbirths
• lying-ins
• childbeds
• lyings-in

travails

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verb

present tense third-person singular of travail

as in struggles

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

• struggles
• labors
• strives
• works
• endeavors
• toils
• slaves
• tries
• tugs
• hustles
• plows
• sweats
• digs (away)
• humps
• strains
• grubs
• pegs (away)
• plods
• slogs
• drudges
• plugs
• bangs away
• fags
• applies (oneself)
• beavers (away)
• moils
• sweats blood
• attacks
• hammers (away)
• buckles (down)
• knuckles down
• pitches in
• exercises
• essays
• scratches
• exerts
• drives
• digs in
• ekes out
• grinds (out)
• trudges
• overworks
• wades
• overexerts
• puts out
• scrabbles

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• breaks
• eases (up)
• slackens
• lets up
• hangs (around or out)
• shirks
• slacks (off)
• dallies
• chills
• bums
• lazes
• goofs (off)
• goldbricks
• rests
• loafs
• lounges
• dillydallies
• unwinds
• hacks (around)
• plays
• reposes
• basks
• idles
• hangs
• lolls
• dabbles
• footles
• relaxes
• hangs about
• fools around
• trifles
• doodles
• fribbles
• veges out
• vegges out
• messes around
• goofs (around)
• monkeys (around)
• putters (around)
• potters (around)