travails

We have found lemma(root) word of travails : travail.

Definitions


[ˈtraveɪl], (Noun)

Definitions:
- painful or laborious effort
(e.g: advice for those who wish to save great sorrow and travail)


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Origin:
Middle English: via Old French from medieval Latin trepalium ‘instrument of torture’, from Latin tres ‘three’ + palus ‘stake’


[ˈtraveɪl], (Verb)

Definitions:
- engage in painful or laborious effort
(e.g: creation may travail in pain but it cannot escape its destiny)


Phrases:

Origin:
Middle English: via Old French from medieval Latin trepalium ‘instrument of torture’, from Latin tres ‘three’ + palus ‘stake’




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