travail
/ˈtraveɪl/
US pronunciation
American sound/ˈtraveɪl/
travail
- Syllables
- 2 syllables
- Stress
- 1st syllable stress
- Vowel
- Short i vowel
- Ending
- Clear final sound
tra - vail -> travail
Myanmar meaning
ဝေဒနာကြီးသည့် ကြိုးပမ်းမှု ။ မီးဖွားခြင်း၏ ဒုက္ခ။ ဝေဒနာကြီးသည့် ကြိုးပမ်းမှု။
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- ‘Springsteen often follows a songwriting strategy that dates back to songs such as ‘Badlands’, with verses full of travail, and choruses that ring with optimism.’
- ‘Today I'm just enormously grateful that such things exist and can be called upon in times of travail.’
- ‘And let our hearts be stout, to wait out the long travail, to bear sorrows that may come, to impart our courage unto our sons wheresoever they may be.’
- ‘The pathos of the Satrean autodidact resides in the nature of his ‘appeal’, the gaze for which he stages his behaviour, the symbolic Big Other to which he submits his uncomplaining travail.’
- ‘These included the publication of De Profundis, the issue of a twelve-volume edition of Wilde's collected works, and Ross's enormous travail for the benefaction of Wilde's orphaned sons.’
- ‘A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow.’
- ‘Anesthetics and antiseptics have manacled the demon pain, and the curse of travail has been lifted from the soul of women.’
- ‘Our hands wax feeble: anguish hath taken hold of us, and pain, as of a woman in travail.’
- ‘Paul knew he had to labour like a woman weary after hours of labour pains to effect new life in people: ‘I travail again in birth.’’
- ‘And they journeyed from Bethel; and there was but a little way to come to Ephrath: and Rachel travailed, and she had hard labour.’
Synonyms
agony, anguish, back to the salt mines, bobble, cast about, childbirth, come apart at seams, come apart at the seams, distress, drop the ball, dropping the ball, drudge, drudgery, effort, engage in, essay, exert oneself, exertion, fag, fagged, fall down, falling down, fight, flounder, go at backwards, go backwards, graft, had it, hard work, have a crack, have a go, have a shot, have at it, keep nose to grindstone, labor, light into, make a mess of, make a run at, make a stand against, miss one's cue, moil, pains, pangs, parturition, plug away, plugging away, pour it on, pour on, pratfall, push forward, pushed forward, put to the test, put up an argument, put up argument, slip up, snafued, spare no effort, stand up to, stress, struggle, stub one's toe, stub toe, suffering, take a stab at, take a whack at, take pains, tangle with, toil, toil on, tribulation, trip up, try out, woe, work, work at, work oneself to the bone
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