Thesaurus / travailing
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synonyms for travailing
- back
- cultivate
- drive
- drudge
- endeavor
- fag
- grind
- plod
- slave
- strain
- strive
- struggle
- sweat
- tend
- toil
- travail
- tug
- work
- bear down
- exert oneself
- plug away
- pour it on
- work oneself to the bone
- grind away
- hammer away/hammer into
- labor
- muck
- perform
- plod
- pound away
- slog
- sweat
- toil
- travail
- back to the salt mines
- dig in
- keep nose to grindstone
- plug away
- aim
- assay
- endeavor
- labor
- offer
- seek
- strive
- struggle
- test
- toil
- travail
- undertake
- venture
- work
- have a crack
- have a go
- have a shot
- have at it
- make a run at
- put to the test
- take a stab at
- take a whack at
- take on
- try out
- argue
- combat
- continue
- engage in
- force
- maintain
- oppose
- resist
- support
- bicker
- buck
- conduct
- contest
- defy
- dispute
- effect
- endure
- further
- hassle
- persevere
- persist
- prosecute
- repel
- row
- squabble
- strive
- struggle
- travail
- traverse
- uphold
- wage
- withstand
- wrangle
- buckle down
- carry on
- exert oneself
- fall out
- hammer away
- lay into
- light into
- make a stand against
- push forward
- put up an argument
- spare no effort
- stand up to
- take on
- take pains
- tangle with
- toil on
- flop
- stumble
- wallow
- blunder
- bobble
- flummox
- fumble
- grope
- labor
- lurch
- muddle
- plunge
- pratfall
- snafu
- strive
- thrash
- toil
- toss
- travail
- tumble
- cast about
- come apart at the seams
- drop the ball
- fall down
- foul up
- go at backwards
- go to pieces
- make a mess of
- miss one's cue
- screw up
- slip up
- stub one's toe
- trip up
- work at
On this page you'll find 216 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to travailing, such as: strive, sweat, tend, toil, cultivate, and drive.
- agree
- comply
- ignore
- let go
- neglect
- surrender
- cease
- concur
- forget
- give in
- give up
- halt
- idle
- leave
- quit
- stop
- yield
- believe
- make peace
- uphold
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How to use travailing in a sentence
O to be doing some little towards the regeneration of this groaning, travailing creation!
GEORGE ELIOT'S LIFE, VOL. I (OF 3)GEORGE ELIOTThey know themselves re-born in soul, and are dimly aware that the world is travailing toward new birth with them.
CARRY ONCONINGSBY DAWSONTo relax the intense nerve or deaden the travailing brain would have been painful and grievous to him.
WILLIAM BLAKEALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNEI had believed too in a Republican France, which is yet only in the womb of time, to be born after many pangs and sore travailing.
A FEW WORDS ABOUT THE DEVILCHARLES BRADLAUGHOn the contrary, the travailing woman should be honoured for her peril, and counted holy as Nature suggests.
THE CONFLICT OF RELIGIONS IN THE EARLY ROMAN EMPIRET. R. GLOVERThe voice of the travailing earth played on her strung nerves as if they had been banjo-strings.
THE FURNACEROSE MACAULAYHe was lavish of hospitality and gave to all who asked such pity and sympathy as only a tried and travailing spirit could feel.
THE DIXIE BOOK OF DAYSMATTHEW PAGE ANDREWSAnd she being with child, cried travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered.
BIBLICAL EXTRACTSROBERT COOPERTowards this resurrection all creation is groaning and travailing.
THE GOSPEL OF ST. JOHNFREDERICK DENISON MAURICEThere is a pause in the hurry, in the sorrow, of this travailing world; there is a hush.
THE NEAR EASTROBERT HICHENS