travail
13 05 2008Nouns
1. (n.) childbed, confinement, labor, labour, lying-in, parturiency, travail;
- concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child;
- “she was in labor for six hours”;
2. (n.) effort, elbow grease, exertion, sweat, travail;
- use of physical or mental energy; hard work;
- “he got an A for effort”; “they managed only with great exertion”;
Verbs
1. (verb) dig, drudge, fag, grind, labor, labour, moil, toil, travail;
- work hard;
- “She was digging away at her math homework”; “Lexicographers drudge all day long”;
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