Travailing: This form is used to describe when someone is currently engaged in hard work or a difficult situation, or as a noun to describe the condition or act of doing such a thing.
How do you use the word travail?
Travail in a Sentence ?
- Since Scott was not a very good worker, nobody expected him to volunteer to travail to help the team meet the deadline.
- The prisoners are expected to travail in the fields even in bad weather.
- Despite all odds, Ellen managed to travail in her classes and graduate from high school on time.
What does the term travail mean?
travail \truh-VAIL\ noun. 1 a : work especially of a painful or laborious nature : toil. b : a physical or mental exertion or piece of work : task, effort. c : agony, torment. 2 : labor, childbirth.
