travails

nounstruggle

Synonyms for travails

noun struggle

Antonyms for travails

Word Origin & History

"labor, toil," mid-13c., from Old French travail "suffering or painful effort, trouble" (12c.), from travailler "to toil, labor," originally "to trouble, torture," from Vulgar Latin *tripaliare "to torture," from *tripalium (in Late Latin trepalium) "instrument of torture," probably from Latin tripalis "having three stakes" (from tria, tres "three" + palus "stake"), which sounds ominous, but the exact notion is obscure. The verb is recorded from late 13c.

Example Sentences for travails

For duty is God's midwife, sent to deliver the soul that travails in its anguish.

No more then remember we our pains; our ship-wrecks and dangers are forgotten; we fear no more the travails and the thieves.

Seeing the splendor reserved for itself, it groans and travails unceasingly.

His heart yearns towards them; he travails over them in birth again.

The Travails dealt with a matter of ephemeral interest, and would not long have held the public.