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Definition of travail noun from the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary

travail

noun

NAmE//trəˈveɪl//

[uncountable, plural] (old use or literary)

an unpleasant experience or situation that involves a lot of hard work, difficulties, and/or suffering the travails of life in postwar Europe

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