Definitions for travails

travails tra·vail

Spelling: [truh-veyl, trav-eyl]
IPA: /trəˈveɪl, ˈtræv eɪl/

Travails is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 331 anagrams from letters in travails (aailrstv).

Definitions for travails

noun

  1. painfully difficult or burdensome work; toil.
  2. pain, anguish or suffering resulting from mental or physical hardship.
  3. the pain of childbirth.

verb (used without object)

  1. to suffer the pangs of childbirth; be in labor.
  2. to toil or exert oneself.

Origin of travails

1200-50; (v.) Middle English travaillen Old French travaillier to torment Vulgar Latin *trepaliāre to torture, derivative of Late Latin trepālium torture chamber, literally, instrument of tor

Examples for travails

He returned home a pauper without a pension and 50 years later, at 70, chronicled the travails of the War of Independence.

The whole history of Western film and TV is mostly the travails of wealthy people with problems only the wealthy can understand.

No more then remember we our pains; our ship-wrecks and dangers are forgotten; we fear no more the travails and the thieves.

That quip reflected his own travails with thinking outside the box.

It was he who guided us through the travails of early adulthood.

The travails dealt with a matter of ephemeral interest, and would not long have held the public.

Ira is classic Moore; his travails feature her signature blend of absurdity and desperation.

For duty is God's midwife, sent to deliver the soul that travails in its anguish.

Seeing the splendor reserved for itself, it groans and travails unceasingly.

His heart yearns towards them; he travails over them in birth again.

Word Value for travails
Scrable

11

Words with friends

13

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