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to travailed

to travailed

9.9
To feel great pain or work very hard, often during childbirth
  • verb
  • /trəˈveɪld/
  • Archaic
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  • She travailed through hours of labor to bring her baby into the world.

Examples

  • The workers travailed under harsh conditions for little pay.

  • He travailed over his studies, determined to pass the difficult exam.

  • She travailed through the night and finally gave birth to a healthy son at dawn.

  • The workers travailed for hours in the hot sun to finish the harvest.

  • She travailed through hours of labor to bring her baby into the world.

  • She travailed through the night and finally gave birth to a healthy son at dawn.

  • The workers travailed for hours in the hot sun to finish the harvest.

Antonyms

relaxed
241 1.0

Calm and not worried

rested
1.0

Not tired after sleeping or taking a break

How Painful

to travailed
  • Archaic
9.9
to agonize
  • US
6 6.8
to suffer
∞ 2.0
to hurt
∞ 1.0
ache
92 1.3

Surface Forms

travailed infinitive
travailing present participle
travails third person singular
travailed past
travailed past participle

Morphology

travailed = travail (transparent) = travail + ed

The past-tense/adjectival form is formed by the regular suffix '-ed' applied to the verb 'travail', so the morphological relation is direct and predictable.

Etymology

The word travailed comes from the old word travail, which meant 'painful work' and comes from a Latin word for a tool used to punish. So travailed means to go through great pain or hard effort, like childbirth or very difficult work.