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travailed
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vb. (en-past of: travail )
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Travail \Trav"ail\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Travailed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Travailing .] [F. travailler, OF. traveillier, travaillier, to labor, toil, torment; cf. Pr. trebalhar to torment, agitate. See Travail , n.] To labor with pain; to toil. [Archaic] ``Slothful ...
Usage examples of travailed.
Fair knight, said he to Palomides, of me ye win no worship, for ye have seen this day that I have been travailed sore.
And so she departed from Sir Percivale and left him sleeping, the which was sore travailed of his advision.
For I cannot sufficiently express the love she had for me, nor how she now travailed for me in the spirit with a far keener anguish than when she bore me in the flesh.
For about four thousand years she travailed, she grew pregnant, she produced, and then, when stones began to cover the soil where the golden harvests sung by Homer had flourished, her children abandoned her exhausted and barren bosom.