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Meaning of travail

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  travail
      n 1: concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of
           contractions to the birth of a child; "she was in labor for
           six hours" [syn: {parturiency}, {labor}, {labour},
           {confinement}, {lying-in}, {travail}, {childbed}]
      2: use of physical or mental energy; hard work; "he got an A for
         effort"; "they managed only with great exertion" [syn:
         {effort}, {elbow grease}, {exertion}, {travail}, {sweat}]
      v 1: work hard; "She was digging away at her math homework";
           "Lexicographers drudge all day long" [syn: {labor},
           {labour}, {toil}, {fag}, {travail}, {grind}, {drudge},
           {dig}, {moil}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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