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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024tra•vail (trə vāl′, trav′āl),USA pronunciation n. - painfully difficult or burdensome work;
toil. - pain, anguish or suffering resulting from mental or physical hardship.
- the pain of childbirth.
v.i. - to suffer the pangs of childbirth;
be in labor. - to toil or exert oneself.
- Old French: suffering, derivative of travailler
- Vulgar Latin *trepaliāre to torture, derivative of Late Latin trepālium torture chamber, literally, instrument of torture made with three stakes (see tri-, pale2); (noun, nominal) Middle English
- Old French travaillier to torment
- (verb, verbal) Middle English travaillen 1200–50
- 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged labor, moil.
- 2.See corresponding entry in Unabridged torment, agony.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: travail /ˈtræveɪl/ literary n - painful or excessive labour or exertion
- the pangs of childbirth; labour
vb - (intransitive) to suffer or labour painfully, esp in childbirth
Etymology: 13th Century: from Old French travaillier, from Vulgar Latin tripaliāre (unattested) to torture, from Late Latin trepālium instrument of torture, from Latin tripālis having three stakes, from trēs three + pālus stake |