Synonyms of the word

travail

• n. (archaic) Arduous or painful exertion; excessive labor, suffering, hardship.
• n. Specifically, the labor of childbirth.
• n. (obsolete, countable) An act of working; labor (US), labour (British).
• n. (obsolete) The eclipse of a celestial object.
• n. Obsolete form of travel.
• n. Alternative form of travois (“a kind of sled”).
• v. To toil.
• v. To go through the labor of childbirth.

birth

• n. (uncountable) The process of childbearing; the beginning of life.
• n. (countable) An instance of childbirth.
• n. (countable) A beginning or start; a point of origin.
• n. (uncountable) The circumstances of one's background, ancestry, or upbringing.
• n. That which is born.
• n. Misspelling of berth.
• adj. A familial relationship established by childbirth.
• v. (dated or regional) To bear or give birth to (a child).
• v. (figuratively) To produce, give rise to.

birthing

• n. (sometimes attributive) The act of giving birth.
• n. (nautical) Anything added to raise the sides of a ship.

childbed

• n. (uncountable) The final stage of pregnancy; confinement.
• n. (countable) The bed in which a baby is born.

confinement

• n. the act of confining or the state of being confined.
• n. lying-in, time of giving birth.

dig

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To move hard-packed earth out of the way, especially downward to make a hole…
• v. (transitive) To get by digging; to take from the ground; often with up.
• v. (mining) To take ore from its bed, in distinction from making excavations in search of ore.
• v. (US, slang, dated) To work like a digger; to study ploddingly and laboriously.
• v. (figuratively) To investigate, to research, often followed by out or up.
• v. To thrust; to poke.
• v. (volleyball) To defend against an attack hit by the opposing team by successfully passing the ball.
• n. An archeological investigation.
• n. (US, colloquial, dated) A plodding and laborious student.
• n. A thrust; a poke.
• n. (Britain, dialect, dated) A tool for digging.
• n. (volleyball) A defensive pass of the ball that has been attacked by the opposing team.
• v. (slang) To understand or show interest in.
• v. (slang) To appreciate, or like.

drudge

• n. A person who works in a low servile job.
• n. (pejorative) Someone who works for (and may be taken advantage of by) someone else.
• v. to labour in (or as in) a low servile job.

effort

• n. The work involved in performing an activity; exertion.
• n. An endeavour.
• n. A force acting on a body in the direction of its motion.
• v. (uncommon, intransitive) To make an effort.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To stimulate.

exertion

• n. An expenditure of physical or mental effort.

fag

• n. (US, technical) In textile inspections, a rough or coarse defect in the woven fabric.
• n. (Britain, Ireland, Australia, colloquial, dated in US and Canada) A cigarette.
• n. (Britain, obsolete, colloquial) The worst part or end of a thing.
• n. (Britain, colloquial) A chore; an arduous and tiresome task.
• n. (Britain, education, archaic, colloquial) In many British boarding schools, a younger student acting as…
• v. (transitive, colloquial, used mainly in passive form) To make exhausted, tired out.
• v. (intransitive, colloquial) To droop; to tire.
• v. (Britain, education, archaic, colloquial) For a younger student to act as a servant for senior students…
• v. (Britain, archaic) To work hard, especially on menial chores.
• n. (vulgar, offensive) A homosexual man.
• n. (US, vulgar, offensive) An annoying person.

grind

• v. To reduce to smaller pieces by crushing with lateral motion.
• v. To shape with the force of friction.
• v. (metalworking) To remove material by rubbing with an abrasive surface.
• v. To become ground, pulverized, or polished by friction.
• v. To move with much difficulty or friction; to grate.
• v. (sports) To slide the flat portion of a skateboard or snowboard across an obstacle such as a railing.
• v. To oppress, hold down or weaken.
• v. (slang) To rotate the hips erotically.
• v. (slang) To dance in a sexually suggestive way with both partners in very close proximity, often pressed…
• v. (video games) To repeat a task a large number of times in a row to achieve a specific goal.
• v. To produce mechanically and repetitively as if by turning a crank.
• v. To instill through repetitive teaching.
• v. (slang, Hawaii) To eat.
• v. (slang) To work or study hard; to hustle or drudge.
• n. The act of reducing to powder, or of sharpening, by friction.
• n. Something that has been reduced to powder, something that has been ground.
• n. A specific degree of pulverization of coffee beans.
• n. A tedious task.
• n. A grinding trick on a skateboard or snowboard.
• n. (archaic, slang) One who studies hard; a swot.
• n. Grindcore (subgenre of heavy metal).
• n. A traditional communal pilot whale hunt in the Faroe Islands.

labor

• n. American standard spelling of labour.
• v. American standard spelling of labour.

labour

• n. Effort expended on a particular task; toil, work.
• n. That which requires hard work for its accomplishment; that which demands effort.
• n. (uncountable) Workers in general; the working class, the workforce; sometimes specifically the labour…
• n. (uncountable) A political party or force aiming or claiming to represent the interests of labour.
• n. The act of a mother giving birth.
• n. The time period during which a mother gives birth.
• n. (nautical) The pitching or tossing of a vessel which results in the straining of timbers and rigging.
• n. An old measure of land area in Mexico and Texas, approximately 177 acres.
• v. (intransitive) To toil, to work.
• v. (transitive) To belabour, to emphasise or expand upon (a point in a debate, etc).
• v. To be oppressed with difficulties or disease; to do one's work under conditions which make it especially…
• v. To suffer the pangs of childbirth.
• v. (nautical) To pitch or roll heavily, as a ship in a turbulent sea.

lying-in

• n. The final stages of pregnancy; accouchement.
• adj. of, or relating to childbirth.

moil

• v. To toil, to work hard.
• v. To churn continually.
• v. (Britain, transitive) To defile or dirty.
• n. Hard work.
• n. Confusion, turmoil.
• n. A spot; a defilement.
• n. (glassblowing) The glass circling the tip of a blowpipe or punty, such as the residual glass after detaching…
• n. (glassblowing, blow molding) The excess material which adheres to the top, base, or rim of a glass object…
• n. (glassblowing) The metallic oxide from a blowpipe which has adhered to a glass object.

parturiency

• n. parturition.

parturition

• n. The act of giving birth; childbirth.

sweat

• n. Fluid that exits the body through pores in the skin usually due to physical stress and/or high temperature…
• n. (Britain, slang, military slang, especially WWI) A soldier (especially one who is old or experienced).
• n. (historical) The sweating sickness.
• n. Moisture issuing from any substance.
• n. A short run by a racehorse as a form of exercise.
• v. (intransitive) To emit sweat.
• v. (transitive) To cause to excrete moisture from the skin; to cause to perspire.
• v. (intransitive, informal) To work hard.
• v. (transitive, informal) To extract money, labour, etc. from, by exaction or oppression.
• v. (intransitive, informal) To worry.
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To worry about (something).
• v. (transitive) To emit, in the manner of sweat.
• v. (intransitive) To emit moisture.
• v. (intransitive, plumbing) To solder (a pipe joint) together.
• v. (transitive, slang) To stress out.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To cook slowly in shallow oil without browning.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To remove a portion of (a coin), as by shaking it with others in a bag, so that…

toil

• n. labour, work, especially of a grueling nature.
• n. trouble, strife.
• n. A net or snare; any thread, web, or string spread for taking prey; usually in the plural.
• v. (intransitive) To labour; work.
• v. (intransitive) To struggle.
• v. (transitive) To work (something); often with out.
• v. (transitive) To weary through excessive labour.

work

• n. (heading, uncountable) Employment.
• n. (heading, uncountable) Effort.
• n. Sustained effort to achieve a goal or result, especially overcoming obstacles.
• n. (heading) Product; the result of effort.
• n. (uncountable, slang, professional wrestling) The staging of events to appear as real.
• n. (mining) Ore before it is dressed.
• v. (intransitive) To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.
• v. (transitive) To effect by gradual degrees.
• v. (transitive) To embroider with thread.
• v. (transitive) To set into action.
• v. (transitive) To cause to ferment.
• v. (intransitive) To ferment.
• v. (transitive) To exhaust, by working.
• v. (transitive) To shape, form, or improve a material.
• v. (transitive) To operate in a certain place, area, or speciality.
• v. (transitive) To operate in or through; as, to work the phones.
• v. (transitive) To provoke or excite; to influence.
• v. (transitive) To use or manipulate to one’s advantage.
• v. (transitive) To cause to happen or to occur as a consequence.
• v. (transitive) To cause to work.
• v. (intransitive) To function correctly; to act as intended; to achieve the goal designed for.
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To influence.
• v. (intransitive) To effect by gradual degrees; as, to work into the earth.
• v. (intransitive) To move in an agitated manner.
• v. (intransitive) To behave in a certain way when handled;.
• v. (transitive, with two objects, poetic) To cause (someone) to feel (something).
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To hurt; to ache.