All travail synonyms
traΒ·vail
T t noun travail
- nativity β birth.
- gruntwork β Alternative spelling of grunt work.
- birth pang β Any of the repetitive spasms of pain associated with labour.
- birth pangs β plural of birth pang.
- work β Henry Clay, 1832β84, U.S. songwriter.
- lying-in β the state of being in childbed; confinement.
- effort β exertion of physical or mental power: It will take great effort to achieve victory.
- backbreaker β a wrestling hold in which a wrestler uses his knee or shoulder as a fulcrum to bend his opponent's body backwards
- exertion β Physical or mental effort.
- labour β productive activity, especially for the sake of economic gain.
- endeavor β Try hard to do or achieve something.
- grindstone β a rotating solid stone wheel used for sharpening, shaping, etc.
- hardship β a condition that is difficult to endure; suffering; deprivation; oppression: a life of hardship.
- delivery β Delivery or a delivery is the bringing of letters, parcels, or other goods to someone's house or to another place where they want them.
- endeavour β Standard spelling of endeavor.
- drudgery β menial, distasteful, dull, or hard work.
- natality β birthrate.
- ado β bustling activity; fuss; bother; delay (esp in the phrases without more ado, with much ado)
- geniture β birth; generation.
- essay β A short piece of writing on a particular subject.
- full court press β Basketball. a tactic of harassing, close-guarding defense in which the team without the ball pressures the opponent man-to-man the entire length of the court in order to disrupt dribbling or passing and force a turnover: Suddenly behind by eighteen points, they went to a full-court press.
- grind β to wear, smooth, or sharpen by abrasion or friction; whet: to grind a lens.
- childbearing β Childbearing is the process of giving birth to babies.
- childbed β the condition of giving birth to a child
- birth β When a baby is born, you refer to this event as his or her birth.
- childbirth β Childbirth is the act of giving birth to a child.
verb travail
- have it β (in children's games) the player called upon to perform some task, as, in tag, the one who must catch the other players.
- come apart at the seams β come unstitched
- flounder β to struggle with stumbling or plunging movements (usually followed by about, along, on, through, etc.): He saw the child floundering about in the water.
- drop the ball β a spherical or approximately spherical body or shape; sphere: He rolled the piece of paper into a ball.
- fagging β to tire or weary by labor; exhaust (often followed by out): The long climb fagged us out.
- moil β to work hard; drudge.
- fight β a battle or combat.
- fall down β to drop or descend under the force of gravity, as to a lower place through loss or lack of support.
- bobble β A bobble is a small ball of material, usually made of wool, which is used for decorating clothes.
- drudge β a person who does menial, distasteful, dull, or hard work.
- fag β Extremely Disparaging and Offensive. a contemptuous term used to refer to a male homosexual.
- labor β productive activity, especially for the sake of economic gain.
- have a go β try sth
- mucking β moist farmyard dung, decaying vegetable matter, etc.; manure.
- cast about β to make a mental or visual search
- fagged β to tire or weary by labor; exhaust (often followed by out): The long climb fagged us out.