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travailed

travailed is the simple past and past participle of travail.

Meaning of travail

Verb

travail (third-person singular simple present travails, present participle travailing, simple past and past participle travailed)

  1. To toil.
    • [A]ll slothful persons, which will not travail for their livings, do the will of the devil.1552, Hugh Latimer, Fourth Sermon on the Lord's Prayer, Preached before Lady Katherine, Duchess of Suffolk
  2. To go through the labor of childbirth.
    • A woman when she traveyleth hath sorowe, be cause her houre is come: but as sone as she is delivered off her chylde she remembreth no moare her anguysshe, for ioye that a man is borne in to the worlde.1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, John

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Questions about travailed

What is travailed the simple past and past participle of?
Travailed is the simple past and past participle of travail.

Words near travailed in the dictionary

  1. Trautweins
  2. Trav
  3. Travaglia
  4. Travaglio
  5. travail
  6. travailed
  7. travailest
  8. travaileth
  9. travailing
  10. travailings
  11. travailous

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